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In the months right after the merger with the Santa Fe, Hal Pantti explored Burlington Northern’s “Coal Country”. Beginning at Lincoln, Nebraska, Hal traveled to Alliance. Then he followed a loop, traveling over the Angora, Valley, Canyon, Orin, Black Hills, Edgemont and Butte Subdivisions, finally arriving back in Alliance for the return trip home.
Until July, 1995, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific trains took turns using a diamond crossing where their lines intersect in Grand Island, Nebraska. Now, Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains climb up and over the UP triple-track main.
Cajon Pass in 1987 is a very different place than it is now. In many ways more exciting for railfans, with helpers, cabooses and pre-merger railroads.
Barstow, California. Gateway to both Cajon Pass and the Mojave Desert. BNSF and UP push trains through here at a rapid pace.
“Baldwin Diesels” is a 2 show combo: “Early Baldwin Diesels on the Southern Pacific” and “California’s Baldwin Diesels”. See action on the SP, Trona, Amador Central and the Sierra Railroad. All Baldwins!
The sequel to “Rotaries: Avalanche on the Mountain”. Find out what happened after the avalanche and the 9 days to open Donner Pass. Ride with the rotary crew!
Explore Wyoming’s Powder River coal country and beyond. From breathtaking canyon views to non-stop action on a four track mainline.
12 hours a day, 6 days a week for 3 months, Union Pacific and a team of skilled contractors made history by rebuilding two Jordan Spreaders. Watch the work – and the action as it plows snow.
One of the railroad’s most important tools for battling the snows during unusually heavy Winter seasons just got re-enlisted: The Rotary Snow Plow! And it comes just as an avalanche traps a crew on the mountain.
From First Generation power to SD90MACs, Union Pacific provides an incredible mix of engines… including an appearance by Union Pacific Northern Type #844.
Take a trip to Nebraska in 1996 for busy Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern and Burlington Northern mainlines.
Union Pacific on the former Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route. So short a time after the merger means plenty of Southern Pacific power is still seen.
Union Pacific has taken over the Southern Pacific, but, in 1999, there is still plenty of SP flavor to this stronghold of the Southern Pacific.
The mergers are in the rear view mirror as we look at the Southern California area in 1999, but there are still a lot of pre-merger paint schemes.
It’s the late 1990s and Union Pacific has taken over the Chicago and Northwestern and the CNW Geneva Sub.
Chicago & Northwestern personality and color are still abundant on this high traffic former CNW, now Union Pacific route west out of Chicago. Part one of a two part series.
Chicago & Northwestern personality and color are still abundant on this high traffic former CNW, now Union Pacific route west out of Chicago. Part two of a two part series.
The Union Pacific double track Chicago Sub hosts UP’s main route from Chicago to Texas and CSX’s route south out of Chicago.
One of the greatest engineering feats in railroading history. This program captures a classic moment. Cabooses were making their final appearances. The SF & SP were counting their chickens before they hatched with the “Kodachrome” merger paint scheme.
Across rolling prairies, grassland plains, over immense bridges and through scenic badlands, the rail lines criss-crossing America’s Heartland carry the freight that nourishes a continent and beyond.
Two busy lines skirting both sides of the Columbia River Gorge.
Join us as we spend 8 days in western Indiana, and Illinois railfanning at many popular spots!
We begin our visit to famed Sherman Hill at Cheyenne Yard. Between Cheyenne and Laramie is the crossing of the Continental Divide with three tracks over Sherman Hill.
Visit two Union Pacific lines through Kansas, The Coffeyville (former MoPac) Sub and the Cherokee Sub.
UP’s busy Marysville Subdivision in 1996, just a year after CNW merger. It’s colorful as Union Pacific is having a motive power shortage.
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