Union Pacific 4014 arrives in Granger Wy in the very early morning in May 2019 on its first trip west since being restored

Eastbound on the Kearney Sub.

Conductor Del Trefry has just thrown a switch in the UP's North Yard and provides a good scale comparison of the monster size of the Big Boy locomotive 4014, which is emerging from a cloud of stea... (more)

UP 4014 Big Boy puts on a steam and plume show on a cold winter morning as it heads north from Prescott towards Little Rock, Arkansas.

The sun has just come up and it is 28 degrees as the Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy waits to head north from Prescott towards Little Rock, Arkansas.

A year ago to this day Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 stopped in Denver and was pounded by a massive snow storm. With heavy snow falling, the UP team has cleared switches in the North Yard of ice and ... (more)

Winter Solstice

The softness of beautiful winter evening light captivates the frozen steam from his majesty the Big Boy. Wasatch class 4-8-8-4 is nearly home after an astoundin... (more)

Big Boy over Kiowa Creek

A year ago a brisk Union Pacific 4014 chase from Limon to Denver wrapped up for me at the ancient Warren quadrangular truss east of Bennett, CO over th... (more)

Finally heading home after two months on the road, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steams over 76th Street at milepost 7 between Adams and Dupont, Colorado on the Greeley Subdivision after departin... (more)

4014 rounds a curve after exiting San Timeteo Canyon on its way out of California to Yuma, AZ.

Crowds swarmed the double track mainline as the Big Boy made a scheduled servicing stop. People did anything they could to see, including sitting on shoulders.

In November 1984, UP Big Boy 4012 was relocated from Bellows Falls, VT to Steamtown in Scranton, PA. The photographers in the foreground of this picture were standing on the D&H Penn Division brid... (more)

In November 1984, UP Big Boy 4012 was relocated from Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Scranton, PA. The locomotive is shown here, exiting the Belden Tunnel, on its way over the D&H between Oneonta and B... (more)

For the first time on Wisconsin Rails under it own power, Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 passes underneath the Hoard Rd. bridge as it thunders through the small town of Ashippun WI.

Highball Sand Creek Junction

I still cannot believe I climbed that 18” deep snow covered slippery slope and waited in subzero windchills for this frame. The Big Boy, 4014 in ... (more)