Photo ID: 113865 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Point of Rocks Potter Precinct, NE 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific One of my personal favorite shots of the day came at the location known as Point of Rocks just east of Potter, NE. Nebraska is, of course, a relatively flat state, and Point of Rocks is one of the places that has a few significant hills (with a lot of rocks!). Partly cloudy skies help create a bit of a dramatic scene here along US-30. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113866 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Point of Rocks Potter Precinct, NE 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Looks east from Point of Rocks, the red, white, and blue boxcars really make a strong statement on the semiquincentennial train led by the Big Boy. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113867 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W424 to Sidney Potter Precinct, NE 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific A lot of folks really enjoy pacing the Big Boy as it is moving along at track speed! You can see the line of cars here on US-30 that are doing precisely that, taking in the sights and sounds of the train as it heads east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113868 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W408 (Sidney) Sidney, NE 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 4014 has left Main 2 behind and is now on one of the yard tracks here in the small yard at Sidney, NE. The signals on the bridge, from left to right, are for Main 2, Main 1, and the 11,000-foot siding at Sidney. No signal head for Big Boy as the train is out of CTC and now in yard limits. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113869 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed CP W408 (Sidney) Sidney, NE 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 4014 is creeping along at about 10 MPH as it is preparing to come to a stop for the first night of many to come on this incredible journey to Philadelphia and back. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113870 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney Sidney, NE 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 4014 is letting off a bit of smoke as it has come to a stop in the yard at Sidney, NE. UP actually does run a local out of a Sidney, and keeps a handful of units in town for that local. UP 4014 has completed the first 100 miles of its journey from Cheyenne to Philadelphia. It will be in Philadelphia on July 4th to celebrate the Semiquincentennial. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113871 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sidney Sidney, NE 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Final shot from the day of UP 4014, now stopped in the yard in Sidney, NE, where it will "sleep" for the night. The tanker truck is filled with water and will fill the Big Boy's "water bottle" back up for the next leg of the trip to North Platte, NE tomorrow. Ultimately, the train will move from Union Pacific to Norfolk Southern in Chicago, running on NS tracks (in anticipation of the proposed merger between UP and NS) to Philadelphia. The steam train returns to Cheyenne at the end of July. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113872 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Lorenzo to Sidney Lorenzo, NE 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF Just north of the siding of Lorenzo, a northbound BNSF coal empty has just a single SD70ACe on the point of the train as it passes by a farmer working in the field. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113873 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Sterling to Peetz Logan County, CO 5 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF A pair of ES44ACs lead a southbound BNSF coal load by an irrigation pond in northeast Colorado on the Angora Subdivision. There was a little breeze, creating ripples in the pond, disrupting what would have otherwise been the perfect reflection shot. Ripples or not, this might have been my favorite shot of the day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113874 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF runs a local out of Brush, CO, and the power on that local (currently just being stored as the local is not running today, Memorial Day) is an GP60M and a GP38-3 (former GP35). In fact, this is the first GP60M that I have shot in 17 years! Not since 2009 have I managed to catch one. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113875 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF An afternoon thunderstorm has moved through Brush and is now headed toward Sterling. Meanwhile, a westbound unit oil train, which departed Sterling about an hour ago, is pulling toward a red signal at Brush. The train will have to wait here for the hottest train in Colorado, BNSF's ZCHIDEN (Z-train from Chicago, IL to Denver, CO). Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113876 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Brush Brush, CO 4 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's hottest train (in Colorado) is the Z-train between Chicago and Denver (and vice versa in the morning). Here, the Denver-bound Z-train is moving through Brush at around 50 MPH. The train is currently at the far west end of the Akron Subdivision, which is about to join with the Brush Subdivision, the track to the left. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113877 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tonville Weld County, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak The evening eastbound Zephyr is overtaking an eastbound Q-train that is in the hole at Tonville. The Zephyr kinda snuck up on me as I was expecting the Q-train to meet the westbound Z-train (and that it would meet #6 at Barr). However, #6 got out of town in a hurry, and here we are! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113878 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tonville Weld County, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) Amtrak Green signals ahead for the eastbound Zephyr. In the middle of winter, the Zephyr emerges from the Moffat Tunnel in the last rays of sunlight (when on time). This time of year, the train is well out onto the plains before the sun disappears. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113879 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Tonville Weld County, CO 3 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Brush (BNSF) BNSF After the evening Zephyr overtook this Q-train here at Tonville, the Q-train still has to wait a little bit longer as the Zephyr is meeting a Z-train at Hudson, the next siding to the east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

Previous Page     Next Page