Photo ID: 108151 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Northport Bridgeport, NE 831 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Valley (BNSF) BNSF After receiving a pair of manned helper to help with the climb to Alliance, this BNSF coal load is swinging around the wye from the Valley Sub (coming from the Powder River Basin) to the Angora Sub to continue its journey east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108150 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Northport Bridgeport, NE 822 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Valley (BNSF) BNSF A pair of SD70ACes swing around a leg of the wye at Northport from the Angora Sub to the Valley Sub. There is a loaded coal train that needs manned helpers to assist in the 30 mile trip (climb) from Bridgeport to Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108149 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 833 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Angora (BNSF) BNSF, Union Pacific A rather interesting view looking straight down on the diamond in Bridgeport, NE where the BNSF Angora Sub (single track) crosses over the UP South Morrill Sub (two tracks). The two tracks to the right are transfer tracks between the UP and BNSF. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108148 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 908 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad South Morrill (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF Bridgeport, NE is the location of a lot of railroad action most days! BNSF's Valley Sub joins in with the Angora Sub here. A wye allows trains coming off the Valley Sub to turn north toward Alliance or south toward Colorado and the Brush Sub. In addition, UP's two main track South Morrill Sub cuts through the scene, crossing the Angora Sub on a diamond. In this shot, a UP coal empty heading for the Powder River Basin (in the foreground) heads west as a BNSF coal empty, also heading or the Powder River Basin (in the background) heads west as well. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108147 Date Shot Photo By Monday, June 1, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Bridgeport Bridgeport, NE 816 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad South Morrill (UP) Union Pacific, BNSF There is a fairly substantial car maintenance facility located in Bridgeport, NE. The facility is owned and operated by Progress Rail. It connects with UP's South Morrill Sub on one side and BNSF's Valley Sub on the other, offering services for either railroad. As you can see, open hoppers are the primary thing maintained at this facility. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108146 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 949 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF In the main classification yard in Alliance, BNSF has about 500 units stored, most of which are C44-9Ws or ES44ACs (CitiRail leasors). Tack on another 100 or so units, most of which are SD70MACs, on one of the tracks on the engine maintenance facility side of the yard. This string of units brings the total number stored in Gillette, WY, Edgemont, SD, and Alliance, NE to somewhere around 1,300! Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108145 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 935 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF A sole BNSF SD40-2 makes a reverse move in the yard at Alliance to pick up a few cars for switching on the far side of the yard. A manifest sits on one of the yard tracks, ready to depart, just waiting on a crew. A ton of surplus units also sit in storage throughout the yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108144 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 921 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF While BNSF does have a fairly large classification yard in Alliance, NE, it has a huge locomotive maintenance facility here. Most, if not all, of the major locomotive maintenance items required on engines in the mid-west are handled here in Alliance. In the days of Burlington Northern, this was the largest engine maintenance facility on the railroad. A good chunk of BNs units were maintained here. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108143 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 943 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX After finding about 500 units stored in Gillette, WY and another 200 units stored in Edgemont, SD, an additional 500 or so units are currently being stored in Alliance Yard in Alliance, NE. About 300 of the units are visible in in this long lens shot. Nearly all (if not all) of the CitiRail leasor ES44ACs are currently here in Alliance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108142 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 1003 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF, CREX You may remember that a lot of gray and blue CitiRail leasor units showed up on BNSF a few years ago, when BNSF was encoutering a power shortage. Well, unfortunately, due to the currently economy, BNSF now has the opposite problem! A major surplus in power. Most of the Citirail units are currently being stored on a single, seemingly endless track in the Alliance Yard. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108141 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Alliance Yard Alliance, NE 931 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Yard Shots BNSF BNSF has a pretty substantial yard in Alliance. This dates back to the Burlington Northern days, when this was one of BNs largest midwest yards. Due to a downturn in the economy, the yard is actually not all that full. Many of the yard tracks either have empty hoppers or power stored in them. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108140 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 366.4 Alliance, NE 883 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF, Kansas City Southern (ALL) In Alliance, NE, the Butte Sub comes to an end at BNSF's yard in Alliance. Three subdivisions actually meet in Alliance. This manifest is heading around the wye from the Butte Sub to the Sand Hills Sub to continue its journey east toward Kansas City. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108139 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 379.5 Box Butte County, NE 872 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF, Kansas City Southern (ALL) A BNSF "H" train, the "H" indicating this is a High Priority Manifest. Finding a pair of Kansas City Southern units on the head end was a pretty great bonus to the train itself. The train is just a few miles away from the start of two main tracks at Berea. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108138 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 383.5 Hemingford, NE 816 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF An ES44C4 and an ES44AC lead a westbound unit grain train, sometimes referred to as an "earthworm", westbound along a fantastically green field just outside Hemingford, NE. Two main tracks start at Hemingford and this train will take Main 1 west up and over Crawford Hill. An afternoon storm is building in the distance. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108137 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, May 31, 2020 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed MP 383 Hemingford, NE 836 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Butte (BNSF) BNSF A westbound grain train is on a eight mile stretch of single track between Berea and Hemingford. A manifest is waiting on Main 2 at Hemingford, about a mile ahead, for the grain train. Two coal loads are stacked up behind the manifest, too. The lead unit here, BNSF 4252, is a Tier 4 "credit unit". BNSF had some emissions credits saved up that allowed them to purchase some Tier 3 units even after the Tier 4 deadline. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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