A fabulous video, Red!! I love all of the antique equipment and facilities, and also the bridge! 😃😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤❤

I’m liking those drone shots, thx

The roundhouse is awesome, too! 😃😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤❤

8 I really like the green and yellow locomotives, Scott! 😄😄😄😄❤❤❤❤

Great to see that cowboy railyard and a CNW cars there and some coal cars there in Chadron Nebraska nice CNW bridge in valentine Nebraska 😄😄😄👍

The old bridge is way cool, 😎 , too!!😄😄😄😄😄❤❤❤❤❤

Fantastic series of videos from out west Red. I haven’t been out there in nearly 30 years. Thanks for bringing back some fun railfanning memories. The geep is a GP7 originally built for the D&RGW, sold to CRIP, then to PNC, and finally CNW according to the NEBKOTA roster I found.

Great video

Stunning drone footage in nebraska Red, the roundhouse in Chadron yard was cool. Its a shame that beautiful bridge in Valenntine doesn't carry trains now but at least its still standing & put to good use for bikes & pedestrians, stunning views from the top of there. ❤😊👍

Thanks Red for the vid. Nice shots of the bridge near Valentine. Ah Chadron - where my motorcycle career almost ended due to a close encounter with an elk.

Awesome Red. Keep up the great vids

Your videos are awesome. My grandkids age 5 and 3 and a half love watching them as well. They did ask me if you knew their uncle. I had to explain too them that because he works for NS in the corporate HQ in Atlanta that he does not know everyone that post train videos. Keep up the great work.

Hello Red, an interesting video about the so-called Cowboy Line. This Nebraska Northwestern railroad is also a railroad that was taken over by another railroad. We have only had one state-owned railroad since 1920. There are still a few private railroads, but they use the state railroad network. Thanks for your video and best wishes to Iowa. Wolfgang

Looks like Equipment is Rusting in place. Unusual to See both an Active Yard and a Lot of Antiquated Equipment sitting there just taking up valuable space. 🤔

Nice catches!

I sadly have never had time to go to this end of the line. To think this line helped build the West and develop the rural country and now it looks like it's stuck in a Time Warp. Amazing that the Roundhouse is still there much less in fairly decent shape. Looking at the cars in the yard it seems like the majority are for storage or a contract repair shop. @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="75">1:15</a> check the old lettering bleeding through on that ballast car that whole group once being the backbone of the cement cars loaded in Mason City. The drone certainly helped to pick up the magnitude of that bridge especially when you look at the flatter country leading up to it. Glad you had good weather when you were there

Born and raised in Milwaukee Wi. And loved the Milwaukee Road, SOO Line and the southpaw running C&NW. Cool video, thanks much!

Beatiuful video, greetings from Asturias 🚂👍👍👍🔔🥳

I took some old 1/29th scale covered hopper cars and made ballast hoppers from them also. cool.

Hope this site along with equipment is saved from getting scrapped

It’s been decades since I went through Chadron. The old CNW depot was a 2-story, wood frame building painted CNW red. The second floor housed division offices. I drove the Cowboy Line from Chadron to O’Neill on day. I passed one westbound manifest going 10 mph. The high bridge over the Niobrara River is quite spectacular.

Red, I hope you were able to visit Fort Robinson while in Crawford, Nebraska. The CNW rail is still there through the Fort property. The Fort is completely intact as it was in the 1890's. Visitors can stay overnight and a good restaurant is in main building. The fort is located near the mouth of the White River Canyon. Google earth the Fort and the rail line.

Great drone shots of the CNW roundhouse, locos & cars. I doubt I would've seen these great pieces of history without Red's work. Thanks Red

Is it safe to assume that this Old CNW Yard is now Owned by Union Pacific (UP) Railroad ? Thanks for taking us along on your Railfanning Trip. Thanks Red! 👍🙏

You've served up another nice nugget of RR history! It's iteresting how the round house is split up. It almost looks like another bridge approach next to the high bridge?

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="178">2:58</a> I believe that newer building in the upper left of the video is the former division headquarters building. It was sold to the US forestry department that's who's in it now.

Interesting. I wonder if UP railbanked this line when they bought CNW or just abandoned it. I guess they found no shortlines willing to lease the abandoned section. They may have sold it to an entity who turned it into a rail to trail. A really fine looking bridge tho. Nice video, Red!

The town name is pronounced "Shadron."

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Cowboy line went through Stanton Battle Creek and Norfolk

The opening drone footage of the Nebraska Northwestern Railroad's Chadron, Nebraska rail yard gave us a good overview of the former Chicago & North Western Railroad yard. Those two-bay open hopper cars at the beginning of the video are former CNW two-bay sand or bentonite covered hopper cars. After Nebraska Northwestern acquired the CNW two-bay hopper cars, they must have cut the tops covers off the covered hoppers to use as open top hoppers cars. Back in 1980, my late wife and our two sons took a trip out west. One of my wife's sisters was married to a TV reporter/anchor. They were living in Lincoln, Nebraska at that time. We spent a couple of days visiting them and then drove up to Fremont, Nebraska to follow the Cowboy Line. I do not remember if I caught any trains along the line at we were driving on U.S. 20. I remember that we stay in motel in or near Valentine. We stopped at Neligh, Nebraska to see the CNW depot. There was a 40-foot boxcar at the depot. We stopped in Chadron, Nebraska. I took some slides in Chadron. They are in storage currently. From Chadron we went north to Rapid City, South Dakota and then headed west into Wyoming to see the sights. (Post 15 July 2024 at 1917 CDT.)

Red I had filmed my first train almost two months ago which it was a military train .