On a mild afternoon foretelling of spring but with an environment still very much subdued with shades of brown, UP 6803 heads across the flatlands bound for North Platte.
Six engines on the head end and one DP on the rear protect this westbound stack train on the Columbus Subdivision while passing various farming industries in North Bend, NE.
Sitting alongside Union Pacific's busy mainline ready to serve it's grain elevator. Another similiarly painted locomotive sits at an other grain elevator a ways West of here.