Western Railroad Discussion > Strangers in Town

Friday, a military train with tanks and other heavy equipment came through Lincoln, NE.  I didn't get out to get shots of that but yesterday, a second train that looks to be mostly support equipment came through with BNSF 787 as the only power.  This is a sight we don't see often not only because it's a military train but it has a fairly clean warbonnet as the sole power.
 
The first 2 shots attached are of that train at the South 14th Street crossing (old Highway 77) in Lincoln.
 
About a week ago, a post on social media showed a westbound sand train with an engine from a railroad I hadn't heard of before.  Since then, there have been photos here on Trainorders of the train as it made its way west.
 
Yesterday, the train was returning east thru Lincoln.  The third shot attached is of the train at Emerald where crews were changed. 
 
 

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The next 3 shots are of the train at Plamor, west of Lincoln.  The train is approaching Hobson yard.   As I understand it, they spent the rest of the afternoon spotting bad order cars at Hobson and didn't leave Lincoln until dusk.
 
 
Glad I went out for these two! 

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The military equipment is most likely assigned to the National Guard for crowd control if the Huskers don't start
winning this fall! Great shots, like the power on both trainsm that CM&Q unit is pretty unique.

Out 

Very NICE series!

Larry

You're right on the crowd control :) !!  Unfortunately, this particular train was headed for Texas according to some of the chatter.

callum_out Wrote:
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> The military equipment is most likely assigned to
> the National Guard for crowd control if the
> Huskers don't start
> winning this fall! Great shots, like the power on
> both trainsm that CM&Q unit is pretty unique.
>
> Out 

You're right, you had a remarkable variety on your menu!

Willie W