Photo ID: 108911 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After a full day of chasing UP's hospital train east, I caught this eastbound autorack train in the final few minutes of sunlight just east of Pine Bluffs. Quite a nice ending to a very nice day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108910 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Chicago North Western A final look at the old CNW F7A #401 as it rolls east on the hospital train toward its new home in Silvas, IL. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108909 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific As the sun got closer and closer to the western horizon, the crowd following UP's hospital train definitely thinned out a bit. Here, you can see about ten or so cars stopped on the shoulders of the Lincoln Highway, parallel to a stopped UP 5716 and train. They got stopped at a red signal, but are just about to get a clear (green) signal to continue east. This would be as far east as I was able to chase the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108908 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 292 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The UP hospital train has come to (yet another) stop due to a red signal ahead. The dispatcher informed the train that they'd be stopped temporarily to allow an eastbound to run around on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108907 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific This was an incredibly lucky catch for the day! A decade ago, patched Espee AC4400CWs were still fairly common. However, over the years, UP has managed to repaint all but three of these units in to full UP yellow. I just happened to coincidentally come across this scarlet and gray unit, serving as a mid-train DPU on an eastbound grain train. This unit was originally SP 264. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108906 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 248 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After several hours of being stuck behind a UP hospital train, which is restricted to 20 MPH, the Sidney Sub dispatcher was finally able to cross this grain train over to Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108905 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 242 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Interestingly, this hospital train is configured with a manned mid-train helper, UP 8198. The crew on the unit was in constant contact with the crew at the end end. The equipment being donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America museum is all head of UP 8198. The train also had some gondolas and center beam flats in tow, for what purpose, I am not sure. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108904 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 262 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Seeing as how this is likely the last opportunity to get shots of UP 3985 on UP rails, here is one more roster shot of the Challenger in the light of setting Veteran's Day sun. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108903 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 254 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Cannot get enough of the fantastic low light offered up by the rapidly sinking November sun. The lighting on the side of UP 5716, UP 3985, and UP 5511 is wonderful. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108902 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Kimball County, NE 276 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific With the slow progress of the hospital train, making it only 45 miles or so over the course of six hours, eastbound traffic started to backup behind it! In the distance, just one block back, you can see the headlights from an eastbound grain train which has finally managed to cross over to Main 1 and will overtake the hospital train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108901 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 271 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The light is starting to get low in the western sky as the hospital train makes its way out of Wyoming and in to Nebraska. I overheard the crew on the train mentioned that this is the first time in at least 70 years at UP 5511 has been in Nebraska! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106135 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 1207 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Intermodal trains continue to grow in length in order to move more goods with fewer overall trains. As a result, it is not at all uncommon to find mid-train swing helpers in double stacks. Case in point is this ES44AC! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106134 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 1197 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific An eastbound double stack pulls east on Main 2 just east of Pine Bluffs, NE on the Wyoming-Nebraska border. Seeing so little intermodal traffic in Colorado, it is always interesting coming up to the Overland and seeing almost nothing but intermodal trains. An afternoon storm is rolling in to the area from the west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106133 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 1236 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific A westbound double stack (with a single DPU on the tail end) rolls slowly west on Main 1. Note the headlight of a eastbound in the distance. That train had to stop after tripping a hotbox detector. The conductor had to walk the train and the westbound is rolling by slowly as a result. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 106132 Date Shot Photo By Saturday, July 23, 2016 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 1271 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific While waiting for the departure of the Cheyenne Frontier Days train, I wandered over to Pine Bluffs on the Wyoming-Nebraska state line. The weather was deteriorating quickly and the contrast between the sky and the ground was awful. So, I thought a black and white shot of this westbound double stack on Main 1 was appropriate. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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