westrailroads-2008

Various trains on our Yellowstone trip, August 21 through September 6, 2008.

Trains included:
1) NEWTON, KANSAS - August 21, BNSF
2) SOUTH TORRINGTON, WYOMING - 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) Newton, KS ***

August 21, 2008. Newton, Kansas, August 21 at the Amtrak station at 4:36 p.m. Sharp looking Newton station.

LEFT-Like Little Rock, Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops here in the wee hours of the night. RIGHT-A BNSF local starts to head east at 4:41 p.m.

BNSF 2857, 4:42 p.m.

Back of the station.

*** AUGUST 22, 2008 (Friday) Torrington, WY ***

August 22, 2008 at South Torrington, Nebraska. South Torrington Homestead Museum.

LEFT-Still at South Torrington. RIGHT-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) Greybull, WY ***

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.

LEFT-BN 1505 and 2903 at Greybull. RIGHT-The high school is to the left.

BN caboose 12582. Note the bird center top.

*** AUGUST 28, 2008 (Thursday) West Yellowstone, MT ***

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:
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*** AUGUST 31, 1008 (Sunday) RR Tie Monument WY***

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.

*** SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 (Monday) Lander, WY ***

September 1, 2008. Lander, Wyoming depot, former C&NW. No tracks remain. It is now used by the Chamber of Commerce.

I don't know which side of the depot the tracks were on.

*** SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 (Tuesday) Lusk, WY ***

September 2, 2008. This abandoned UP line between Douglas and Lusk, Wyoming is close to their active line through Wyoming.

LEFT-This pronghorn was across the abandoned tracks. RIGHT-Yon can see the UP's main line in the distant left.

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.

LEFT-UP 5967, 5:20 p.m. September 2. RIGHT-UP 6497 and KCS 4021.

Lusk, Wyoming with its water tower.

East of Lusk, Wyoming.

LEFT-Chased by a train! RIGHT-UP 6446, late afternoon September 2, between Lusk, Wyoming and Chadron, Nebraska on US 20. We are in Nebraska.

*** September 3, 2008 (Wednesday) Alliance, NE ***

September 3, 2008. Chadron, Nebraska early in the morning. NEBKOTA 49 and 613 were in the yards.

RIGHT-Older sports cars next to the Nebkota yards in Chadron.

BNSF 9356, west/northbound near Berea, Nebraska, between Chadron and Alliance, September 3.

LEFT-Downtown Alliance, Nebraska, home of a busy BNSF yard and lots of coal trains. RIGHT-BNSF headquarters in Alliance, near downtown.

LEFT-Noon September 3, a colorful lineup of BNSF power, including EMD 9015, BNSF warboonne 8287 and BN 8104 in Alliance. RIGHT-The BNSF yard is to my left.

LEFT-10th Street in Alliance is conveniently built over the BNSF tracks and has a nice, wide sidwwalk. Many BNSF coal trains cross under here. RIGHT-Looking off the 10th Street overpass, away from the town of Alliance.

3:00 p.m. September 3.

Loaded and empty coal trains. Notice the shadows in the center of the trains. Taken from the 10th Street overpass.

BNSF DPU 9613 on the loaded coal train.

RIGHT-Americna Electric Power 1101 at 3:20 p.m. in Alliance.

LEFT-South of Alliance at 3:29 p.m., heading for North Platte, Nebraska, still on September 3. RIGHT-Ogallala, Nebraska.

5:50 p.m. September 3 in Ogallala, Nebraska. UP 3890 heads a westbound intermodal.

*** SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 (Thursday) North Platte, NE Bailey Yards ***

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:
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*** SEPTEMBER 5, 2008 (Friday) McPherson, KS ***

September 5, 2008. McPherson, Kansas and the Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad. RIGHT-K&O headquarters in McPerson, Kansas, Friday afternoon, September 5.

RIGHT-K&O-WAMX 9004, K&O 1154 at the depot.

LEFT-K&O 1154. RIGHT-9004 again.

Back of the McPerson depot.

RIGHT-K&O 7001.

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