UP Big Boy 4014 leads a passenger special over the bridge at Sandstone.

Not So Big Now, Are Ya?: Most photos of the Big Boy do a great job of showing just how massive the locomotive is. I wanted to do just the opposite here; the Sandstone bridge is an impressiv... (more)

On a beautiful morning, UP 4014 heads south across the Kettle River in Sandstone, bound for the Twin Cities.

UP 4014 leads the UP steam special across the Kettle River at Sandstone, MN on BNSF, former Great Northern trackage. UP acquired trackage rights between Superior, WI and the Twin Cities when it to... (more)

Big Boy 4014 makes for an impressive sight from any angle, but if I was going to make the effort to join the throngs of admirers trackside during its visit to Minnesota, I wanted to see it in the ... (more)

A beautiful summer morning in Minnesota finds UP 4014 southbound on BNSF's Hinckley Subdivision.

O’er the river and through the woods, back to the Twin Cities we go! Accelerating after a brief stop in Bruno, we see the Big Boy himself chugging over the Kettle River in Sandstone, MN. The turno... (more)

UP 4014 leads the UP steam special across the Kettle River at Sandstone, MN on BNSF, former Great Northern trackage. UP acquired trackage rights between Superior, WI and the Twin Cities when it to... (more)

UP 4014 crosses the Kettle River trestle at Sandstone, MN with its Great Race Across the Midwest steam special. The former Great Northern bridge is owned by BNSF with CP and UP trackage rights on ... (more)

Under a light rain, UP 4014 gingerly crosses over the Kettle river bridge at Sandstone, MN to the waiting railfans both up on the highway bridge and those that are standing in the river to get the... (more)

BNSF is testing EMD’s new Tier 4 models (SD70ACeP4-T4) on freight trains operating between Minneapolis (Northtown) and Superior, Wisconsin. Here 1604 and 1603 ease their long train across the scen... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 leads Amtrak Train #992, a Friends of the 261 Excursion returning from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, MN to Minneapolis. Here the special is traversing the BNSF H... (more)

#261 without any diesel assist cruises south towards Minneapolis.

Southbound special returning to the Twin Cities.