Photo ID: 113906 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Breezy Point Dawes County, NE 74 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF A BNSF Employee Appreciate Special rolls down the grade on Crawford Hill just past the location known as Breezy Point. The train is running with dynamics now as it descends the 1.5% to 2.0% (depending on where you are) grade. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113905 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Marsland Dawes County, NE 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's passenger equipment is being used on this Employee Appreciate Special on the Butte Sub on Crawford Hill. The train is headed away from the camera on Main 1 as an Lincoln-bound manifest heads east on Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113904 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Marsland Dawes County, NE 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Employee Appreciation Special is making track speed as it hustles west on Main 1. It is meeting a manifest that is on Main 2. The manifest is BNSF's Laurel, MT to Lincoln, NE manifest. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113903 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Niobrara River Box Butte County, NE 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 2026 brings up the tail end of BNSF's Employee Appreciate Special as it passes over the Niobrara River. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113902 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Niobrara River Box Butte County, NE 86 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Employee Appreciate Special crosses over Niobrara River just east of Marsland, NE on Main 1. River might be a little generous at the moment, but the foliage is definitely greener along the river bed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113901 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berea Berea, NE 71 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Employee Appreciate Special is barely rolling along on Main 1 as a coal load passes by east on Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113900 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berea Berea, NE 62 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Employee Appreciation Special is slow rolling on Main 1 just east of a red signal at Berea as it meets an eastbound coal load on Main 2. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113899 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Berea Berea, NE 66 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF's Butte Sub west of Alliance over Crawford Hill is almost entirely two main tracks. Of the 110 miles, 87 miles is two main tracks. There is a nine mile stretch of single track between Berea and Hemingford. Here, an eastbound coal load rolls over the hills, going from single track to Main 2 at Berea. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113898 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance to Berea Alliance, NE 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 2026 brings up tail end of the OALNALN8-31A on Main 1 west of Alliance. The train has a clear signal ahead, but it will ultimately get (very briefly) held up at Berea to meet an eastbound coal load. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113897 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance to Berea Alliance, NE 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF Along with BNSF 1776, BNSF painted a second ES44AH and numbered it 2026. In 1976, for the bicentennial, many railroads painted two units in red, white, and blue and numbered them 1776 and 1976. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113896 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance to Berea Alliance, NE 69 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF A few miles east of Berea, BNSF 1776 leads with BNSF 3336 on a westbound journey on the Butte Sub west of Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113895 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance to Berea Alliance, NE 85 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF 1776 leads a mix of former Burlington Northern and Santa Fe passenger equipment. The train is headed west on Main 1. It will need to meet a coal load at Berea, where two main tracks drop to a single track, so it is not moving at track speed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113894 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Alliance Alliance, NE 63 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF BNSF setup their Employee Appreciate Special in a push-pull configuration. BNSF 2026 is bringing up the rear for the trip west on the Butte Sub to Crawford Hill. It will be the leader for the trip back east to Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113893 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Alliance Alliance, NE 65 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF At West Alliance, a BNSF Officer's Special is rolling west (geographically north) toward the BNSF Butte Sub and Crawford Hill. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113892 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed West Alliance Alliance, NE 61 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF In my opinion, BNSF designed a really classy paint scheme to apply to BNSF 1776. Railroads created special schemes for a few units to celebrate the bicentennial in 1976, so it was cool to see them do the same thing for the semiquincentennial in 2026. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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