Shrouded in steam, the Big Boy is putting on a show in the brisk cold morning air as they get ready to take the turn at Marshall.

After spending the night at Utah Junction near Pecos Street, Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 and train was fired up in the middle of a pre-Thanksgiving blizzard and a foot of snow in the Denver are... (more)

Like so many others, I was out at Union Station Kansas City Inc. on Sunday night to watch the arrival of Union Pacific's Big Boy. After cutting its train in half, the 4014 backed onto one of Unio... (more)

The UP Big Boy highballing on the BNSF Hinckley Sub at Cedar.

Departing from the stop at Gurdon, the Big Boy gives up an impressive plume as it starts to head towards Arkadelphia.

Coming into the capital city, the Big Boy eases off the river bridge over the Arkansas River as they come into yard.

UP Big Boy 4014 leads a long passenger special over the Rialto overpass along the old SP Palmdale Cutoff enroute to Barstow/Yermo.

UP 4014 prepares to leave home rails once again and enter BNSF's Transcon route as it leans into the curve at Daggett.

Having exited BNSF rails at Daggett, UP 4014 is just a few miles away from ending it's first day of pulling a special train benefitting the Rail Giants Train Museum.

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)

A Big Boy in The Land of The Gila Monster.

For the first time since the close of the steam era, an articulated steam locomotive took to the rails in Southeastern Arizona.
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A Big Boy Pointing at Tehachapi. UP 4014 will likely be the first and last "Big Boy" steam locomotive to ever find itself on BNSF's Mojave Subdivision - the tracks that deposit BN... (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)