Photo ID: 113918 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance to Berea Box Butte County, NE 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 2026 is leading a mix of former Burlington Northern and Santa Fe passenger equipment a few mile west of Alliance. A pivot is currently running, showering growing crops in water under partly cloudy skies. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113919 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF 2026 leads the 9am Employee Appreciation Special out of CTC and onto Track 101 in the Alliance Yard, where it will stop and allow its passengers (BNSF employees and their families) to detrain after a near 3½ hour ride over Crawford Hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113920 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF Alliance was once one of the largest facilities on Burlington Northern, and remains a major facility on BNSF today. Three subdivisions (the Angora to the South, the Butte to the northwest, and the Sand Hills Sub to the east. A lot of Powder River Coal trains run through Alliance. Here, BNSF 2026 leads an Employee Appreciate Special toward its stop in the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113921 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 15 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF's Employees Appreciation Special is about to arrive back in the yard at Alliance so passengers can detrain. Off in the distance, you can see the headlight of a westbound arriving on the Sand Hills Subdivision. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113922 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A pair of ES44ACs, delivered as Tier-4 credit units in August of 2023, lead a coal empty into the south yard at Alliance. The train is ultimately headed for the Powder River for loading. It will run south on Angora to Bridgeport, then west on the Valley Sub toward the Orin Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113923 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, Canadian National A load sand train, headed for the Power River (Orin Subdivision), has two Canadian National units for power. The outbound crew is untying the train (the conductor is walking toward the head end), as the train prepares to depart south toward Bridgeport on the Angora Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113924 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots Montana Rail Link, BNSF I was quite saddened to see that this (former) MRL SD70ACe had received quite a few tags on the conductors side. I can only assume that, since BNSF's takeover of MRL at the start of 2025, the unit has spent some time in some place like Southern California. Today, it is in the yard in Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113925 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF As the conductor on a loaded unit sand train walks back toward the head end of CN 2958, getting ready for departure, BNSF 6377 is waiting for a crew to take a coal empty to the Powder River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113926 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, Canadian National This unit sand train was loaded on the Canadian National. when the train was handed over to BNSF, the CN power was kept on the train. Two units on the head end and a single DPU brings up the rear. The train has a fresh crew onboard and the train is departing the south end of Alliance toward the Angora Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113927 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, Canadian National An ES44AC and a (Tier-4) ET44AC, both Canadian National, lead a BNSF unit sand train south out of the yard at Alliance. The train will take the Angora Sub to Bridgeport, NE and turn right and take the Valley Sub to the Powder River Basin. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113928 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed South Alliance to Letan Box Butte County, NE 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian National Loved the opportunity to get a shot of Canadian National units on a unit sand train. Do not get a lot of Canadian National power in Colorado, so seeing them here, just south of Alliance, NE on the Angora Sub was a nice treat. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113929 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Letan to CP 120 Morrill County, NE 12 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian National A pair of Canadian Nationals, an ES44AC and an ET44AC, lead a (loaded) unit sand train south on Main 2 on the Angora Sub. The train is headed for Bill, WY on the Orin Sub in the Powder River Basin. When the train reaches Bridgeport, NE, it will turn west on the Valley Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113930 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Letan to CP 120 Morrill County, NE 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF, Canadian National While not as flat as eastern Nebraska, the Angora Sub south of Alliance definitely represents more of the plains than the Butte Sub north of Alliance. Here, a CN ES44AC brings up the end of this southbound loaded sand train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113931 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 11 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While waiting for the 6pm departure of BNSF's Employee Appreciate Special from Alliance, I noticed a Heritage 1 "Goat Boat", so I had to grab a shot. The name "Goat Boat" has two origins. "Goat" comes from the fact that the original Heritage 1 paint scheme for BNSF is very similar to the Great Northern Railway, which is one of the railroads that merged together to from Burlington Northern in 1970. The Great Northern had a Mountain Goat in its herald. "Boat" comes from the old reference to GE locomotives as "U-Boats", from their early designations such as U30C. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113932 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 13 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF has a massive maintenance facility in Alliance, NE, for both engines and railcars. Maintenance items that cannot be completed in Denver typically result in the engine or car being forwarded to Alliance. Prior to BNSF, Alliance was one of the largest maintenance facilities on Burlington Northern. 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