Various trains on our Yellowstone trip, August 21 through
September 6, 2008. |
Trains included:
1) NEWTON, KANSAS - August 21, BNSF
2) SOUTH TORRINGTON, NEBRASKA - August 22, railroad museum
3) GREYBULL, WYOMING - August 23, BNSF yards
4) WEST YELLOWSTONE, MONTANA - August 28, UP/Yellowstone Museum
5) NORTH OF LANDER, WYOMING - August 31, Railroad Tie Worker monument
6) LANDER, WYOMING - September 1, old CNW depot/Chamber of Commerce
7) WEST OF LUSK, WYOMING - September 2, abandoned UP tracks, UP coal trains west and east of Lusk, old water tower at Lusk
8) CHADRON, NEBRASKA - September 3, Nebkota Railroad
9) ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA - September 3, BNSF coal trains and yard, good shots from 10th Street overpass, American Electric Power locomotive 1101
10) OGALLALA, NEBRASKA - September 3, UP
11) NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA - September 4, Bailey Yard tour, Golden Spike Tower museum
12) McPHERSON, KANSAS - September 5, Kansas & Oklahoma RR
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*** AUGUST 21, 2008 (Thursday) ***
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August 21, 2008. Newton, Kansas, August 21 at the Amtrak station at 4:36 p.m.
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Sharp looking Newton station.
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Like Little Rock, Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops here in the wee hours of the night.
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A BNSF local starts to head east at 4:41 p.m.
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BNSF 2857, 4:42 p.m.
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Back of the station.
*** AUGUST 22, 2008 (Friday) ***
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August 22, 2008 at South Torrington, Nebraska.
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South Torrington Homestead Museum.
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Still at South Torrington.
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Back
in Nebraska near Scotts Bluff with Chimney Rock a few miles to my
right, UP 5820 heads east along US 25. 3:22 p.m. August 22, 2008
*** AUGUST 23, 2008 (Saturday) ***
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August 23. BNSF yards at Greybull, Wyoming with BNSF 2024 and BN 1505, among others. The town is located to the right of the tracks.
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BN 1505 and 2903 at Greybull.
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The high school is to the left.
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BN caboose 12582. Note the bird center top.
*** AUGUST 28, 2008 (Thursday) ***
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August 28, 2008
at West Yellowstone, Montana, just outside Yellowstone National Park.
This former UP depot is now the Yellowstone Musuem. It has a great
dining car china display for the four railroads that served here - UP,
NP. CNW, CB&Q and Milsaukee Roads. To see photos of inside the
station/Yellowstone museum, including pictures of the china collection,
click on:
http://www.thundertrain.org/yellowstone-083008-bb.html
*** AUGUST 31, 1008 (Sunday) ***
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August
31, 2008. On our way from Yellowstone to Lander, Wyoming, we saw this
monument to the men who made the crossties for the Chicago &
Northwestern. It was put up in 1946.
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*** SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 (Monday) ***
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September 1, 2008. Lander, Wyoming depot, former C&NW. No tracks remain. It is now used by the Chamber of Commerce.
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I don't know which side of the depot the tracks were on.
*** SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 (Tuesday) ***
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September 2, 2008. This abandoned UP line between Douglas and Lusk, Wyoming is close to their active line through Wyoming.
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This pronghorn was across the abandoned tracks.
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Yon can see the UP's main line in the distant left.
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Part of the abandoned line was used for storage. The track ends a few hundred feet to my left. This is a cement tie train.
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UP 5967, 5:20 p.m. September 2.
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UP 6497 and KCS 4021.
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Lusk, Wyoming with its water tower.
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East of Lusk, Wyoming.
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Chased by a train!
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UP 6446, late afternoon September 2, between Lusk, Wyoming and Chadron, Nebraska on US 20. We are in Nebraska.
*** September 3, 2008 (Wednesday) ***
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September 3, 2008. Chadron, Nebraska early in the morning. NEBKOTA 49 and 613 were in the yards.
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Older sports cars next to the Nebkota yards in Chadron.
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BNSF 9356, west/northbound near Berea, Nebraska, between Chadron and Alliance, September 3.
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Downtown Alliance, Nebraska, home of a busy BNSF yard and lots of coal trains.
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BNSF headquarters in Alliance, near downtown.
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Noon September 3, a colorful lineup of BNSF power, including EMD 9015, BNSF warboonne 8287 and BN 8104 in Alliance.
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The BNSF yard is to my left.
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10th
Street in Alliance is conveniently built over the BNSF tracks and has a
nice, wide sidwwalk. Many BNSF coal trains cross under here.
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Looking off the 10th Street overpass, away from the town of Alliance.
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3:00 p.m. September 3.
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Loaded and empty coal trains. Notice the shadows in the center of the trains. Taken from the 10th Street overpass.
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BNSF DPU 9613 on the loaded coal train.
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Americna Electric Power 1101 at 3:20 p.m. in Alliance.
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South of Alliance at 3:29 p.m., heading for North Platte, Nebraska, still on September 3.
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Ogallala, Nebraska.
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5:50 p.m. September 3 in Ogallala, Nebraska. UP 3890 heads a westbound intermodal.
*** SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 (Thursday) ***
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On September 4, 2008,
I visited Union Pacific's Bailey Yards in North Platte, Nebraska and
had a tour of the yards and also went to the newly opened Golden Spike
Tower. To see more pictures of that day, click on:
http://www.thundertrain.org/bailey-yard090408.html
*** SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 (Friday) ***
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September 5, 2008. McPherson, Kansas and the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad.
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K&O headquarters in McPherson, Kansas, Friday afternoon, September 5.
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K&O-WAMX 9004, K&O 1154 at the depot.
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K&O 1154.
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9004 again.
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Back of the McPerson depot.
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