DONE! White Pass Rotary Pilot Mike O'Daniel watches from the pilot house as the Rotary Fleet finally busts through the 10 foot high drift that was blocking the platform at Bennett Station i... (more)
White Pass Station: The Rotary Fleet takes the lead. On the 3rd day of the 2011 White Pass Rotary Run, most of the really heavy plowing around White Pass Station and Canadian Shed had been ... (more)
Ready for battle! With the fuel and water tanks fully topped and all crew positions fully manned, the White Pass Rotary Fleet sits at Glacier Siding (MP 14.1) awaiting the order to move fro... (more)
Servicing Stop - Glacier Siding. With roughly 6 miles to go on the journey from Skagway to White Pass, the WPY Rotary Fleet comes to the attention of a servicing crew that has been pre-posi... (more)
Rotary OY after dark. Here's a rear quarter view of OY and her auxiliary water car as they sit in the Chama Yard. Like most of the Leslie-type rotary snow plows, OY was built as a standard... (more)
Rotary OY after dark. Rotary Snow Plow OY, her water car and Pusher Locomotive #487 sit at the Chama Coal Tipple after returning from the first day of operations. Lighting here was provide... (more)
Impact! My camera captures the instant that the charging rotary outfit makes explosive contact with the dense, 4 ft. deep snow pack in the yard at Cumbres Pass. The violence you see out in... (more)
Charge! After stalling out briefly in the dense, 4 ft. deep snow-pack on Cumbres Pass, the Rotary Outfit has backed up perhaps one car-length, and with two blasts of the small, shrill whist... (more)
Rotary OY rests under the coal tipple in Chama after a long day of clearing the line. The fan at the front as just spun down after a test spin.
Shadows and Highlights. After stopping for water (and lunch), the White Pass Rotary Fleet leaves Fraser Station, bound for Log Cabin and eventually Bennett. As the train curves off to th... (more)
Water and Fuel Support at Glacier. The 2011 White Pass Rotary Run would not have been possible without the assistance of several dozen support personnel and multiple work trains bringing su... (more)
Got snow? Throughout most of its history, the White Pass & Yukon Route was a freight hauler that did some passenger business. Back in the day, they operated year-round and used a pair of ... (more)
"Old Maude". Finally spotted in a location where I could get a decently lit shot of her, DRGW Rotary Snow Plow OM occupies one of the storage tracks at the north end of the Chama ... (more)
In search of snow.... The Rotary Pilot on Nevada Northern's Snow Train looks as if he's calling for the train's locomotive to mount a charge at the next drift, but alas, he's just calling ... (more)
Having fought drifts around Windy Point, steam rotary plow OY now uses the rest of the afternoon to clear the yard and wye at Cumbres Summit. The photo line thanks the crew for directing the snow... (more)
Steam Marc Seguin build in 1829 is presented and run with public on a small yards track during celebration of the 40th anniversary of TGV commercial service.
The hours tick literally by for lines of steam engines at Transnet's Millsite - all soon to be no more in a couple of months, as on-site scrap metal merchants demolish the remaining steam stock.
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At the New Year's Day 2003 the steam 99 1564 drive freshly restored from the locomotive shed of the museum IG Pressnitztalbahn in Joehstadt around a course to Steinbach.
Former Meadow River Lumber Company #6 prepares to shove back on the main so it can spot the Durbin Rocket for the 10am departure.
Former Meadow River Lumber Company #6 is being readied for service on the Durbin "Rocket" excursion train. #6 will be the main stay power on the Rocket until Climax #3 is restored.
Dropping back 48 years from my last post, here is another one of those grainy faded Anscochromes that has been reasonably resurrected by Photoshop. No. 3 is doing intra plant switching at the mil... (more)
Heisler number 6 works up to Whitaker Station with a log train. A Lidgerwood Log Skidder sits in the yard to the left of the train. The skidder is part of the Mountain State Logging and Historic... (more)
Former Meadow River Lumber Co. Heisler 6 sits with Cass Shay 2 with the remains of the sawmill behind them. Both locomotives are lettered for the Mower Lumber Company, though Mower never owned an... (more)
Amtrak heater car HC 12 is seen at the BN diesel facilities at Minneapolis Jct. (Harrison St.) In the early years of Amtrak BN handled servicing here for them. This heater car was originally modif... (more)
Tank car at right still has ACL reporting marks
Results of the first evening of night shooting at Nevada Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane 'A' was brought in to rescue an ore car that derailed on Friday evening in the East Ely yards of the Nevada ... (more)
Nevada Northern Railway Steam Wrecking Crane A © 2023 Steve Crise Outtake from the February 3rd night photo shoot.
This year the Nevada Northern 2013 Winter Steam Spectacular Photo Shoot featured the 106 year old, 100 ton Steam Crane "A". The shoot took place on the evening of February 16th, 2013. Accompanyi... (more)
Old steam crane out of service for many years, with many passenger cars in scrapping, in the old yard and workshops of Temuco, the great deposit of coal is observed.
In China, the most favoured method of coaling locomotives was by steam crane. Usually playing photographic 'second fiddle' to the mighty QJs. Here crane No.5187 is given top billing over a QJ comi... (more)
Trainmaster Con Trumbull poses with a lantern next to an ore car and the Nevada Northern Steam Crane on a cold February night.
A track worker pauses in Cass along the Greenbrier Line
Climax #9 passes a track worker along the Greenbrier Line
Big: With a whole siding to itself, legendary "Big Boy" No. 4012 lends its imposing presence to the Steamtown entrance.
Union Pacific Thoroughbreds The crew of the steam program at Union Pacific Railroad set out to record the last time 844, 4014, and 3985 will ever be together again in the steam house i... (more)
Will this happen in 2023 ? Have a great New Year.
Denver was a gracious host for the Big Boy! History captured at Denver Union Station! Big Boy, 4014 is seen here backing into busy Union Station back in July of 2022. Incredible sight to... (more)
UP Big Boy 4014 makes a run in the Cheyenne Yard, pulling UP 5511 around to see how the grease held up in the rod joints.
Westward under the Pecos Signal Tower Arrival into Denver July 28, 2022 the Big Boy moves west towards Arvada on the Moffat Road.
Threading A Million Pound Needle I think it will fit! Or will it? Catenary over steam, what a morning. A forest of catenary strangled the biggest of them all at the throat of Denver... (more)
Eastbound Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 leading the 150Th anniversary of the Transcontinental special arrive in Laramie Wyoming on the way back home to Cheyenne.
Just coming to a stop. Arrival at Denver after a dramatic trip in from Limon. The cold wet air from an impending winter storm take heart to Big Boys own weather system.
UP Big Boy 4014 puts on a steam show in Denver, Colorado. In 2019 when the big boy was in Denver for its last stop after touring the Midwest, a November cold front was dropping temperatures fast,... (more)
Ed has 4014 working hard as he gets the train to track speed after a quick stop in Plaquemine, LA. Next stop, New Orleans!
A 4 train meet between UP 4014, to yard jobs, and an outbound local took place just after 8AM as the Big Boy began its journey to the Big Easy!
History at Barstow For the first time in history, an active 4000' class steam locomotive calls on the original, 1911-built Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger station/Harvey House,... (more)
After a long and eventful day, Union Pacific 4014 (Big Boy) rests under the stars in UP's Beverly yard. The Big Boy will depart Beverly at approximately 0900 in the morning, to visit the state cap... (more)
Just as night falls over the UP yard in Laramie, an eastbound freight lights up Big Boy 4014 and 844 on their way home from a successful run to Ogden. Tomorrow morning, the train will make the tr... (more)
During a heavy snowfall the Big Boy is slowly walked through the switches at the end of the ex-DRGW North Yard. In a few hours the engine and crew will be back home in Cheyenne after a very busy y... (more)
The Big Boy at C&S Junction! Passing the signal bridge near Pecos in Denver, #4014 is preparing to reverse into North Yard for the night. Overcast skies give clue to the blizz... (more)
After making its 15-minute stop, Union Pacific's "Big Boy" No. 4014 departs Green River, Wyoming, as a yard job switches the west end of the yard and manifest waits to head west on Septe... (more)
After traveling across western Kansas and eastern Colorado, UP 4014 pulls into Denver's North Yard on a cold and dreary afternoon and will sit for a night before going home. Little did the crew ... (more)
The day is breaking as the Union Pacific Steam Crew work to ready UP 4014 for it's trip back down Cajon Pass. This will be the second time that a Big Boy was operated, under steam, 'west' through ... (more)
The snow was falling so fast in Denver and the steam cloud from the freezing temps was so dense that a yard vehicle helped guide the Big Boy out of the UP's North Yard in Denver.
After a day long run from Rawlins, Wyoming, UP PRWLM2-17 finally rolls into Laramie, WY where it will spend the next day before heading back to Cheyenne, completing “The Great Race to Promontory... (more)
With the rails well greased, the Big Boy slowly backs around the north leg of the Van Buren wye in North Little Rock, and shows the articulation of the locomotive.
Union Pacific 4014 enters the Texarkana yard and is about to stop at the Amtrak Depot. The dispatcher can now get two westbound freight on the move out of the yard that have been waiting patientl... (more)
Breathing Fire. UP 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, is truly an awe inspiring sight even just building steam pressure in the early morning light. As the sun has ju... (more)
At the conclusion of the doubleheaded westbound run from Cheyenne to Ogden, the Big Boy and 844 were split at the south end of Union Pacific's Ogden Yard, to be staged at different locations for t... (more)
With its excursions over Cajon Pass, benefitting the Rail Giants Train Museum, and display days in West Colton complete, UP 4014 and it's train of business cars highballs Southern California and b... (more)
The Union Pacific 4014 departing the former Southern Pacific Tuscon yard as they head east for Lordsburg, NM on a fine October morning.
A photo, nor video, can truly capture the experience of what it's like to stand next to an active 4000 class steam locomotive. Brief moments like this, however, where wisps of steam and the glint ... (more)
Dawn Breaks Over Big Boy. It's just after 6:00 a.m. on the morning of October 13, 2019, as the Union Pacific steam crew prepares UP 4014 for the return trip to West Colton today via Cajon P... (more)
Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 rests for the evening after its return from Barstow, Ca. on the second leg of a two day excursion to benefit the RailGiants Museum in Pomona, California. October 13, 2... (more)
With the last minutes of golden hour fast approaching, the UP 4014 pulls out of Tuscon as they prepare to head east for Lordsburg, NM as apart of the Union Pacific Big Boy tour.
Ed Dickens - All Smiles. Union Pacific's famed senior manager of the railroad's heritage operations, Ed Dickens, is all smiles this evening after successfully bringing UP 4014 over Cajon Pa... (more)
Hundreds of fan line the Pepper Ave overpass as Big Boy 4014 departs Union Pacific's West Colton yard on an excursion trip to benefit the RailGiants Museum in Pomona, California on October 12, 201... (more)
As dawn breaks in Yermo, the flicker from the firebox gently illuminates the trailing truck's rear wheels beneath the massive firebox of UP 4014 as the locomotive is prepared for it's journey to W... (more)
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 has arrived at the railroad’s West Colton Yard and is backing its 10-car train down the mainline to the western end of the yard, and then will head straight into the y... (more)
Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 has stopped for the night in the former division point of Caliente, Nevada on its journey to southern California to head excursions for the Rail Giants Train Museum.
Members of the steam team tend to Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014 in the yard at Rawlins, Wyoming, after making its first run from Cheyenne on September 27, 2019.
On day 2 of its inaugural trip after restoration, UP 4014 is tied down for the night in Rock Springs.
Shoving the business car Kenefick back to it's final spot, UP 4014 puts on a show even just simply spotting one car at the railroad's West Chicago Provo Training Center.
Photographers, fans and members of the general public armed with their smartphones try their hand at snapping the best photo of UP 4014 possible as the massive 4-8-8-4 pauses during switching move... (more)
With it's boiler slowly realigning with the frame, UP 4014 puts on a show of steam and smoke as it carefully shoves it's train into the Provo Training Center at West Chicago.
An Interlocking Tower Sees Steam Again. UP 4014 slowly eases across the diamond and the EJ&E trackage here in West Chicago as it passes the iconic JB Tower. The current tower, built in 1926... (more)
Big Boy 4014 gets topped with water while people from the area view the locomtive
History Is Made. As an outbound Metra train slows to a stop, crowds swarm toward the right-of-way at West Chicago to catch a glimpse of the visitor from the Midwest - UP 4014. Today is a hi... (more)
Moving at slightly less than walking speed, UP 4014 pulls into the Depot in downtown Duluth, MN while passing a sizable crowd.
After collecting a few covered hoppers, the Big Boy departs the east end of the Cheyenne Yard for its first trip east in 60+ years. Ed Dickens cab be seen leaning far out of the cab of 4014, as th... (more)
The sleeping giant, shut down for the night Big Boy 4014 will be fired back up in the morning for a 10am departure on the 11th. This was my first attempt at using a strobe.
After a slight delay, 4014 has left the steam shop and works it’s way to the east end of Cheyenne Yard where it would back onto the line of hopper cars just above pwr/dorm. Car “Howard Fogg”... (more)
The Big Boy's crew goes about its business as UTA No. 1 powers a FrontRunner commuter train above UP SD70AH No. 8937
Ready to depart! In front of Union Pacific "Big Boy" steam locomotive 4-8-8-4 #4014 in the early morning at Evanston.
UP 4014 and 844 roll into Laramie, Wyoming with a crowd ready to greet them.
Only in America! Yes folks, there are not many places in the world where a major freight railroad would suddenly decide to spend millions of dollars to drag the world's largest steam locomo... (more)
A portrait of Union Pacific "Big Boy" steam locomotive 4-8-8-4 #4014 arriving at the beginning of the ceremony in Ogden, UT on May 9 2019.
