At 11:52 pm (23:42) on January 25, 2014, and the effort to get Union Pacific "Big Boy' 4014 out of the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds is about over. In the wee hours of January 26, Union Pacific's SP Heritage engine, UP 1996, will couple onto 4014's tender and drag it onto Metrolink's San Gabriel Subdivision, which is still being aligned to this temporary track after being cut and dragged into place with heavy construction equipment. Taking a quick break for a group photo are the Metrolink employees who have put in a lot of work to get their mainline cut and moved, and will later have to move it back and weld it into place again before the morning's first commuter train operates. Fortunately, being a Sunday morning, they have a little extra time as the first train is due into Pomona at 7:41 am. The big 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive, built by American Locomotive Company in September 1941, will be headed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, later in the year to be rebuilt and restored to service, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 2019.
