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Viewing Album:  More Iowa & Nebraska in early 80's
 
By:Stu Nicholson
Dates:8/31/2013 - 8/31/2013
Album Info:Slide scans from my days living in Omaha from 1979 to 84.
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Burlington Depot at Nebraska City, Nebraska
Title:  Burlington Depot at Nebraska City, Nebraska
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:39:06 PM
Location:  Nebraska City, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  179   Comments: 3
Historic UP Depot at Fremont,Nebraska.
Title:  Historic UP Depot at Fremont,Nebraska.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:27:06 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  96   Comments: 0
UP freight heads eastbound from Fremont in 1981.
Title:  UP freight heads eastbound from Fremont in 1981.
Description:  Quite the diverse lash-up of UP and CN&W power....including a U-30C bringing up third place among four.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:23:44 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9001(GP40X) CNW 6877(SD40-2)
Views:  666   Comments: 2
UP & C&NW Share the load at Fremont, Nebraska in 1981.
Title:  UP & C&NW Share the load at Fremont, Nebraska in 1981.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:25:31 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Roster,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6877(SD40-2)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
BN Caboose at Council Bluffs
Title:  BN Caboose at Council Bluffs
Description:  Looking fresh out of the paint shop as it waits for a train assignment at the BNs Council Bluffs yard.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:54:39 PM
Location:  Council Bluffs, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  222   Comments: 2
A rare find: CMSTP&O boxcar.
Title:  A rare find: CMSTP&O boxcar.
Description:  Found this on an old siding where the C&NW was storing cars at Blair, Nebraska in 1983.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:50:47 PM
Location:  Blair, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  442   Comments: 2
UP goes east as BN empties head west to the coal mines.
Title:  UP goes east as BN empties head west to the coal mines.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:30:06 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  UP 2526(C30-7)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
Fontanelle, Iowa CB&Q Depot
Title:  Fontanelle, Iowa CB&Q Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:21:18 PM
Location:  Fontanelle, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Fontanelle, Iowa CB&Q Depot
Title:  Fontanelle, Iowa CB&Q Depot
Description:  The station still had the old signs up when I took these shots in the early 1980s.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:19:10 PM
Location:  Fontanelle, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  264   Comments: 0
Old CB&Q depot at Fontanelle, Iowa.
Title:  Old CB&Q depot at Fontanelle, Iowa.
Description:  Many years have passed since this depot served passengers along this Burlington branch line in west-central Iowa. Kodachrome slide scan from 1982.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:39:28 PM
Location:  Fontanelle, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  197   Comments: 0
Rock Island Depot at Council Bluffs in early 80s.
Title:  Rock Island Depot at Council Bluffs in early 80s.
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:26:35 PM
Location:  Council Bluffs, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Old Rock Island Depot at Council Bluffs.
Title:  Old Rock Island Depot at Council Bluffs.
Description:  Now restored and the site of a local rail museum, the old Rock island Depot at Council Bluffs, Iowa was in sad shape in the early 1980s. Note the BN switcher moving cars across what was once a busy main line for the "Rock". It wasnt long after this photos was taken that the Rock was crushed to bankrupt ballast.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 3:35:11 PM
Location:  Council Bluffs, IA
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Station,Passenger
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Views:  238   Comments: 0
BN freight climbs out of the Missouri River Valley into Omaha in the early 1980s.
Title:  BN freight climbs out of the Missouri River Valley into Omaha in the early 1980s.
Description:  Looking through the grid of a bridge over what used to be the passenger yard for both the UP and CB&Q stations.
Photo Date:  8/31/2013  Upload Date: 8/31/2013 6:45:49 PM
Location:  Omaha, NE
Author:  Stu Nicholson
Categories:  Bridge,Track,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  90   Comments: 0

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