Sometimes things just work out, in this case me being in Texas for UP's steam specials. Odd that at 46 years old, my first ever photograph of UP steam would be the Big Boy!
A northbound empty grain train gets rolling northbound after the curfew for Texas A&M's football game against Lamar expires as large thunderstorms brew to the south.
UP 844 highballs south to its whistlestop at Navasota past some wildflowers at Millican.
The monster size of the wheels can't be described. Largest operating steam locomotive in the world!!!
Southbound on UP Navasota Sub to Houston
