Union Pacific's Cornhusker Mainline (The Triple Track)

The Council Bluffs Subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad is the busiest main line in North America. It is also home to the largest railroad classification yard in the world!

C. Vision tours a portion of the Sub starting at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska. From there we move east along the line, viewing many runbys through the Sandhills region, and onto the vast cornfields of Nebraska.

The video concludes in Grand Island at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe's flyover. There, we view movement on both the Union Pacific and the BNSF Ravenna Subdivision, which moves mostly Wyoming coal.

Lots of modern power from EMD SD 40-2's, SD 90-43's and GE Dash 9-60AC's are seen in charge of the fast freight on the Council Bluffs Subdivision.

Copyright 1997, C. Vision Productions

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[09JDCTrainMan]

UP has quite a few C&NW locomotives in use.

[clasko69]

@09JDCTrainMan This video was shot a couple years after the merger of the CNW. At this time, there were several CNW locomotives on the UP system.

[BNSF9250]

chris why did Up have some of BN's oakways in that one shot?

[clasko69]

@BNSF9250 Don't know. Many years ago. I would assume horsepower hours payback.

[MinnesotaRails]

Wow! That is one busy area!

[UnionPacificRules]

i think they were both AC 4400!? idk? nice!

[RailfanningRulez]

is there a train every 10 mins?

[lexpo181]

nice catching!

[elr2141979]

WOW!!!! @2:48

[romanticrobozombie]

I would rather glue my butt cheeks together rather than watch this again...

[iaisno513]

The train that passed through Kearney (2:11) had a great RS3LR horn!

[upfan2000]

3:36 the filmer gets a wave.

[csx5400]

The lead triple windshield SD60M at 1:57 has serious flat spots. Rough ride for the crew.

[jmm2000]

It's now called the Kearney Subdivision from North Platte to Gibbon Jct. It still has three main lines (with concrete ties and 140lb rail) and they've installed 10,000 ft sidings between crossover locations. About 100 to 140 trains traverse this area and Bailey Yard has two classification yards (one for eastbound traffic and one for westbound traffic) and it's CTC-ATC.