UP 1989 is grinding up the final portion of Riga Hill as it leaves the Big Creek watershed behind and comes up onto the high plains of western Kansas.

After being used to load the 110 car Houston bound grain train, KCS 4788 rests on the west end of the Cargill owned trackage at Ogallah, Kansas.

UP 7297 and 6541 rest at the east end of the Cargill owned siding at Ogallah, Kansas. The locomotives are waiting the call to duty to pull the 110 car grain train loaded with Kansas grain down to ... (more)

With the sun fading in the western sky, the UP 7039 marches upgrade with an empty coal train bound for another load of western Colorado coal.

Pushing hard on the rear of a westbound manifest, UP 7955 rolls past the unit grain train elevator at Ogallah, Kansas. The train is bound from Salina, Kansas to Denver, Colorado.