Author: Ed Schopperth
Amtrak business car Beech Grove on the rear of eb train 6 on a rainy April morning.
5823 leads eb coal loads on a rainy morning at Oreapolis NE.
A rainy morning at Oreapolis NE.
Wisconsin Southern's Athearn 60th anniversary car on an eb manifest in Council Bluffs IA.
At the IC/CN yard in Council Bluffs IA.
At the IC/CN yard.
Two veteran units yard a loaded ballast train.
Headed home at the end of a two-week Wimmer Engineering Special south on the Sioux City sub.
A green signal for the special.
Almost home, the Wimmer Engineering Special enters the double-track leading to the former CNW yard and the Heritage Car Shops.
An eb made up of empty, sequentially numbered cars thru Oreapolis NE. Anyone know where they're headed?
Leading a wb manifest, a well-worn GE waits a meet at Oreaplolis NE
The meet at Oreapolis
A single GE leads a long string of empty hoppers west at Oreapolis NE.
Eastbound at Oreapolis NE.
eastbound thru Oreapolis NE
Trailing unit on wb coal empties-BNSF's Creston Sub at Oreapolis NE
Headed back to Omaha's Gibson Yard, a local switch job cruises past Oreapolis NE.
EB coal loads thru Oreapolis NE.
West bound at Oreapolis NE.
DPU on coal loads eb thru Oreapolisa NE
Sunny spring skies for this westbound at Oreapolis NE.
IAIS and lease units awaiting their next assignments.
A track geometry train eb on the BNSF Creston Sub at Oreapolis NE.
Eastbound DPU on coal loads thru Oreapolis NE on tne BNSF Creston Sub.
Still in fresh paint, 9145 leads coal loads eb thru Oreapolis NE.
Two logos adorn this 70MAC in Grinstein paint.
Today's local switcher in the IC/CN yard.
One of UP's first 70Ms leads a manifest off of the 12th Street line.
An eastbound stacker works its way thru the Bluffs.
A former CNW on a manifest.