The annual North Platte Rail Days event in 2012 was particularly good, as it included all six of the Union Pacific’s Heritage diesels, along with other special locomotives (UP 7964, the 5000th G... (more)

The Heartland Tour Begins | After spending a couple of days at Bailey Yard in North Platte, NE, Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 has officially begun its "Heartland Of America To... (more)

Vibrant Nebraska Morning | Crossing a field just east of North Platte, NE, an eastbound intermodal train begins its journey down the Kearney Subdivision on the sunny morning of Sunday, Sept... (more)

Heading east out of North Platte, NE, a double-length loaded coal train is beginning its journey down the Kearney Subdivision on a sunny August 31, 2024 afternoon. A single GE motor serves as the ... (more)

North Platte Elevator | Dwarfed by the grain elevators in the center of North Platte, NE, an EMD GP9 owned by the Maywood Co-op Association rests on a side track on a sunny Saturday, August... (more)

Coal Empties At North Platte | Rolling through the center of North Platte, NE, a westbound train of empty coal hoppers approaches Bailey Yard on the sunny afternoon of Saturday, August 31, ... (more)

The Big Boy rests at the engine service area at Bailey yard the night before strutting her stuff to Grand Island.

Union Pacific Railroad has been rebuilding their GE AC6000CW diesels (which the UP dubbed "AC6044AC"s, but this was not what GE put on their builder's plates) into AC4400CWM locomotives ... (more)

Nearing its crossing of the North Platte River, Union Pacific intermodal train 2ITAG4-12, heading to Global 4 intermodal facility in Joliet, Illinois, from Tacoma, Washington's Port Yard, heads ea... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad has been rebuilding their GE AC6000CW diesels (which the UP dubbed "AC6044AC"s, but this was not what GE put on their builder's plates) into AC4400CWM locomotives ... (more)

On the service tracks at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard locomotive facility, an employee inspects UP GE AC4400CW No. 7129 as prior to being serviced on May 4, 2011.

Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3315 and EMD SD60M No. 2313 sit outside on the west side of UP’s large locomotive shop at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on the afternoon of May 4, 2011.

Lots of yellow locomotives wait for the call of duty at Union Pacific's Bailey Yard.

A machinist checks the progress of the axle one wheel of a GE ES44AC that he is carefully cutting with a lathe on the wheel track inside the Diesel Shop at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard at North P... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 1996 displays its colorful Daylight colors in its Southern Pacific heritage scheme at the locomotive facility at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011... (more)