(The following appeared on the Omaha World-Herald website on June 15, 2011.)
OMAHA, Neb. — Railroad tracks around the Midlands are looking a bit different thesedays.
Some are surrounded by sandbags and levees. Other stretches are elevated a few feet off the ground. A few crossings are without their warning arms and flashing lights, monitored instead by workers with flags.
Crews from U.P. and BNSF have been working round the clock to protect critical transport lines and monitor flood threats. Already, there have been some successes — notably, an effort in North Platte to patch up a breached dike near a U.P. railroad bridge east of town.
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