Photo ID: 111562 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Madrid to Grant Perkins County, NE 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Between the west Nebraska towns of Madrid and Grant, a westbound Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Railroad train is moving west at 40 MPH on the Wallace Subdivision. The train has a pair of SD40s (rebuilt as SD40-3s) for power. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111563 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant, NE 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado While the Class 1 railroads have most of the power and most of the rail miles in the country, don't underestimate the role of short line railroads. Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado is one such short line. The railroad is owned by OmniTrax, and has just over 500 miles of track. The railroad is based in Grant, NE and has seven units on the roster. Here, a pair of SD40s lead a westbound manifest consisting of three covered hoppers and a string of tank cars. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111564 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 76 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado OMLX 419 is a (rebuilt) SD40-3. It was originally delivered to Canadian National (as CN 5126) in 1969. After going through a handful of leaser railroads, the unit wound up on the roster of OmniTrax, the owner of NKCR. Two years ago, it was repainted in an OmniTrax paint scheme that includes the Scoular name (an Agriculture Supply Chain Solutions company), and the NKCR herald on the cab. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111565 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Although Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado is owned by OmniTrax, it is one of roughly 25 railroads owned by OmniTrax, and still operates on its own to a certain extent. The railroad is headquartered in Grant, NE, roughly 20 miles east of the Colorado/Nebraska border. On the east edge of town, you can see the Nebraska State Championships for the Plainsmen. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111566 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 125 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado It is really great to see Tunnel Motors finding life after Class 1 railroads. After absorbing Southern Pacific (which, of course, was taken over by Rio Grande), Union Pacific was the only Class 1 railroad with any Tunnel Motors. However, UP shed the Tunnel Motors from their roster well over a decade ago. A former Espee SD40T-2 has been acquired by OmniTrax and has been repainted in the blue NKCR paint scheme. It was not in use on this day, was sitting outside the shop in Grant, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111567 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 90 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado The population of Grant, NE is just over 1,100 people. A few of them work for Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Railway, which is headquartered in the town. You can see the shop and fuel tracks here, where OMLX 421 was sitting. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111568 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 87 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Nearly an hour of switching industries in Grant, NE, this NKCR train is getting ready to depart west toward Sterling, CO. After a morning of overcast skies, the clouds are starting to clear out a bit and some direct sunlight shown through! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111569 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado An NKCR train departed Grant eastbound this morning to switch in Madrid, NE. It is now headed back west, passing by its headquarters. OMLX 421, a former Espee Tunnel Motor, is sitting at the shop. I was hoping it would be on the train today, but alas, it was not. OMLX 413 was used for today instead. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111570 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant Grant, NE 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado When Rock Island went out of business, their assets were sold off. 45 years later, you can still find some rolling stock in Rock Island blue scheme. I never had the opportunity to shoot this scheme on locomotives, but it is pretty cool to find it on the occasional covered hopper. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111571 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant to Brandon Perkins County, NE 67 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado OMLX 419 and OMLX 413 are power on a westbound mainline Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado train. Cows are grazing in the field in the distance just west of the town of Grant, NE. There are major winds on the plains this afternoon, and the clouds are zipping rapidly through the skies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111572 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant to Brandon Perkins County, NE 70 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado OMLX 419 has just cleared the restricted limits of Grant, NE and the train is working on accelerating back up to track speed. 40 MPH. The train is headed for its next stop in Venango, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111573 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Grant to Brandon Perkins County, NE 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado If, as a railfan, you have never taken the time to chase a short line railroad, it is a lot of fun. One challenge certainly can be just finding a train. Short lines often have a lot of track and only one or two trains operating on any given day. However, once you find one, it is usually pretty easy to get ahead of it as speeds are lower and stops for switching are frequent. Here, a Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado train heads west out of Grant, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111574 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brandon Brandon, NE 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado Brandon is an unincorporated town in Perkins County, NE, about 12 miles east of the Colorado/Nebraska border. There is not a lot to see in Brandon, although there is a rather large grain elevator. An NKCR manifest passes by the elevator, the name of the town clearly printed on the side, as it makes its way west. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111575 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brandon to Venango Perkins County, NE 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Wallace (NKCR) Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado With winds often in excess of 40 MPH, it was a rather interesting weather day on the plains. The high winds blew out some of the overcast skies of the morning. Additionally, the winds kept my drone grounded for much of a day. It was rather nice using a DSLR trackside for some shots of this interesting short line operation. Here, a pair of SD40s leads a westbound NKCR manifest between Brandon and Venango. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 111576 Date Shot Photo By Monday, December 30, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Venango Venango, NE 72 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots SCOX An former ATSF GP7, this old geep is now owned by Scoular Grain and lives in Venango, NE. It switches out a grain elevator located here in town. The unit was originally delivered to Santa Fe as ATSF 2768. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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