What Happened to the Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad? 

Me and my siblings, as well as everyone on my dads side going back to my great grandpa grew up right along these tracks. I’ve walked up and down the BNSF line a handful of times but I haven’t walked along these tracks since for about a decade they’ve been covered in trees and bushes, but my dad has told me stories about crawling underneath in the drains when a train would come and making branch huts in the space between that and the bnsf line. I can’t wait for the hooper to Fremont trail to be done because it’s such an interesting path going through what once was an important route. I’ve been on the trail from Central City to Marquette, so I hope this abandoned line trail will be just as good.

3:33 That caboose sits behind sheds on the Inglewood Side of town. There's actually two BN Cabooses there.

7:26 One of those crossing signals has disappeared

I grew up in Des Plaines Illinois where there were 3 railroads. SOO Line, Milwaukee Road and of course Chicago North Western. Noticed they were all mentioned here. This was very interesting and nicely done.

the cowboy sub is a baller name.

Nice Job Will I remember going to that Railroad For The Day out With Thomas Event !

Very nice tiny Documentary

I rode on this railroad when I was a kid. I was sad when I first heard it was closing down.

Awesome video and great job doing an explanation on this! Great to know more info on this railroad!

hey unionpacific omaha thanks for the info of this railroad intrusting fact this was my childhood train however i only got to ride it three times then i never came back until i saw this video ( i will be making a video of the sw1200 in ho scale along with the dinner cars and the other passenger cars ) i also went to hooper and not much was on the abandoned line only a few old boxcars and two switchers. i can wait when they move the locomotive and the cars to nebraska city. stay tuned for my video of making sw1200 1219 and others bye

Hey man thanks for the history lesson, very well done.The 1702 was great and the 2021? Needed a "ie" at the end of SOO LOL, go hogs. Thanks again brother, dad and I enjoyed very much👍👍

Thanks for taking me down memory lane. I grew up in Hooper. I remember one summer they had to stop train just before it entered town to let the fire department to respond to an emergency. If I had the money, I would repair and add on to the line. I would have it go from Omaha to Norfolk, Nebraska on existing rail. Stopping in Schuyler, Columbus and Madison. The reason I would not have it stop in Hooper is because there is a new(ish) bypass in the way. There are also plans to make 275 four lanes all the way to West Point.

Glad someone made a video on the old line. Got stopped a couple times at the highway 77 crossing in Fremont, once with the Thomas day. Never did get to ride it. Hope to explore the abandoned line up to Hooper some day.

Nice job this video is amazing

I read in Wikipedia that this train was in the movie To Wong Foo thanks for everything Julie Numar

Excellent video!!

Updates to the video. Cargill 316 went to the Great Plains Transportation Museum in Wichita Cargill 66 went to Saskatchewan Florida and Alabama 18 went to the Sioux City Railroad Museum Some of the stock went to either private ownership , or the Illinois Railroad Museum. 1219 and the Centercab has been completely scrapped FEVR 1101 and CBQ 1938 have been relocated to a private property behind Sapp Bros The Baldwin City Dinner train was acquired by Rock Island Rail about a year ago.

They where out recently pulling up more of the old track on the north side of Fremont and trucking it off.

Cool story

I don’t know what happend so I clicked on this video

This train is said to go all the way to nebraska city but hopefully the train will be restored

Darn that really sucks that the equipment is just sitting there. I hope you get to catch it when they move them

That hope is gone It's going to be a bike trail. Update in 2022 are now being scrapped at the site at there place.

Hi Union Pacific Omaha

Sure is quite sad to see that most of the line no longer exists like other tourist lines that suffered the same fate such as the Knox & Kane, McCloud Railroad, and many other tourist lines that once existed.

I rode on the dinner train What street did you shoot the cnw locomotive

What happened to FEVR caboose 1740. Can't seem to find much on it aside from one site suggesting that it went to the Boone and Scenic Valley. Got any information on that FEVR F7 by the way?

It's sad because they are abandon this railroad

Any idea how and when it’ll be moved?

The group borrowed money from a bank for the line $200,000 and NEVER PAID IT BACK OR THE INTEREST ON THE LOAN. In a clean up of the banking industry from bailouts and corruption they had a non preforming asset. So the bank sold the loan to a scrapper. All he had to do is wait. And watch the railroad fall apart. The government gave them a year to fix cross level track conditions. Nothing was done. So they shut them down. Now the rail is being torn up. The few members left have abandoned the few assets left. This group was never very progressive. The profit center was the dinner train. Which did not share revenues with the museum. They got the state of Kansas to pay to move them down there. Where they operate today. These are the same people that would be against big government! Except when it benefits them.