Downtown Omaha, NE 12-28-2013

[Trainfanne54]

First shots are from Gibson Yard. The BNSF Intermodal Facility.

1. BNSF Yard Job.
2. BNSF Power.
3. Brand New BNGX Cars.
4. NS Coil Car.

 

[David914]

Interesting shots, to be sure. My wife & I were on vacation in the last half of September 2013. Stayed overnight in a motel just outside the BNSF yards. Very enjoyable for a railfan.

 

[Trainfanne54]

Downtown Pics

5. UP Manifest heading East to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
6. Same.
7. New UP Railcars.
8. CN Transfer Job.

 

[Trainfanne54]

Last Shots

9. CN#5679.
10. UP Grain Train tied down at Rough Pass Siding. Engine's were still running. Taken 12-29-2013.

 

[brad_in_omaha]

We must have been down there about the same time. I caught the nice Green and Black BN locomotives and I saw the CN sitting on the river bridge. It took over two hours to get across CB. I saw it sitting on the Bridge at Noon and at 2pm I finally saw it rolling in to the CN Yard.

 

[David914]

Good looking photos! Have you had the chance to go to Omaha and see #6900? My wife & I saw it while traveling across on Interstate 80. She couldn't understand what I was so excited about at first. I am wondering if there is a way to get close to the locomotive.

 

[brad_in_omaha]

Yes, its open to the public 360+ Days a year from 9am to 5pm. Its in Kennefick Park at the Omaha Botanical Gardens. You can walk right up to it and all the way around it. Same with the Big Boy that's next to it.

Check out this thread here:
http://www.railroadforums.com/forum...tzen-Gardens-Kenefick-Park&highlight=kenefick

 

[Trainfanne54]

Thanks. BNSF is pretty fun too railfan.

 

[Trainfanne54]

Yeah I must have not seen you there. I was only there for 30 minutes. That CN transfer was sitting on the bridge for awile.

 

[David914]

My fault....we were in Lincoln Nebraska. But got quite an eyeful of BNSF & Uncle Pete trains while there. Back before the Earth's crust cooled (1975) I was visiting a steady girlfriend at that time. She lived in Princeton, Illinois. The Old Q went from Chicago to The Quad Cities, through Princeton. I took a few Kodachrome slides of BN trains 'on the fly'. I was in heaven! (Heady stuff for an 18 year old)