Echoing through the COOP Canyon
Lodgepole, NE

High Plains of northeast Colorado
The Overland Route dips south east towards Julesburg and returns to Nebraska near Ogallala. Here 4014 is at track speed under a nice stack lea... (more)

Wyoming Border
4014 races eastward out of Wyoming. 8/5/21

The launch of the Union Pacific Big Boy 2021 Tour found the 4-8-8-4 #4014 digging in for the climb up Archer Hill, east of Cheyenne, as the train made the trek for Sidney on the first day of the t... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 (4-8-8-4) leaves Pine Bluffs, Wyoming after the crews serviced the running gear. Notice the crop duster that flew buy to see the rare locomotive.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 stops in Kimball, Nebraska to grease up the running gear. A large crowd of all ages turned out to see the Big Boy in person.

Lights from nearby parking lots, building and cars illuminate Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 as it sits the night in Sidney, Nebraska.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 arrives in Julesburg, Colorado where it will stop and greet the large crowd that has turned out to see the huge marvel of engineering.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 runs through Archer Hill east of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Union Pacific's Big Boy steam engine leaves Julesburg, Colorado and heads towards North Platte, Nebraska.

Engineer Ed Dickens leans out of the window as Union Pacific's Big Boy rounds the corner to Julesburg, Colorado. Wherever the magnificent engine stopped on its journey from Wyoming to Colorado an... (more)

Morning Fire
Morning reds and glint ablaze at Sidney, CO. 8/6/21

101 degrees in the Shade
Hot summer vibes I share with the cicadas and the plains of Nebraska this was a hot hike in from US 30 to capture the rural farmland of the Midwest and... (more)

Julesburg Highball
Obligatory overpass overlook shot eastbound from Julesburg, CO, 4014 and crews begin the high ball for the Nebraska Overland Route.

Code Poles and Track Speed
Ed Dickens is on the fireman side for his watchful eye over the Overland Route right of way in western Nebraska. Running track speed near Ogallala, N... (more)