Due to us having lots of corn and ethanol plants , you see some trains that are all grain trains, rarely a train of all ethanol tank cars, but usually a mix of the two. Could make for
a nice mix on someone’s layout.
Are you able to run behind the trains with a glass and some ice?
Nah, they put something in it Dave, will kill you to drink it. Alas…now maybe some of the workers get some before that goes in!
Been seeing some of the container and coal trainson the UP with the pusher engine about 2/3 of the way back, not clear at the rear as they had been for years.
Pictures???
Speaking of Nebraska; very nice article in “Trains” (july issue) about UP’s Bailey Yard in North Platte. The mag has a four page center fold to show the track plan of this puppy - I bet they don’t manage that in the girlie-mags. 
I toured the yard last year at North Platte’s Trainfest. LOTS of people attended. COdy park was full of vendors/lookers. UP had locos downtown on the tracks. It was a MUCH bigger event than I had expected. Lots of fun.
Yesterday I was keeping up with a container train, had three dash 9’s pulling it, right at 65 mph. As a general course the container trains are the fastest trains I’ve seen here on the UP line. So you can have some freights really rollin’ on your layout and be prototypical.
Today on the way home from Scottsbluff I saw 7 BN Engines pulling a freight, and two pushers at the end!! Don’t think I have ever seen that many before, close but not that many that I can remember. Regal
You guys in Nebraska need to start carrying a camera
Ralph