Dawn is breaking at Sharon Springs, Kansas as the crew starts to prep UP 4014 for the run to Denver, Colorado.

UP 4014 departing Sharon Springs, KS headed for Denver, CO.

The early bird photographer gets the sunrise shot of UP Big Boy 4014 as it sits in Sharon Springs, Kansas.

UP Big Boy 4014 meets a UP Freight in Arapahoe, Kansas.

UP 4014 leaves Sharon Springs, Kansas under ominous clouds. As with the other stops on the tour, the Big Boy draws large crowds who are amazed at the size.

Reflections of UP 4014 at Sharon Springs, Kansas. Photographers, admirers and kids of all ages showed up at Sharon Springs early in the morning to see the Big Boy locomotive and watch it leave fo... (more)

UP 4014 in the siding at Sharon Springs where it will overnight.

Two SKOL trains get up close and personal as former UP/MP and NS SDs lead trains on former Frisco and Santa Fe rails.

This southbound long-range local has a new crew and is about to resume its trek. A few miles south of Fort Scott, at a spot called Edward - population one switch and zero people - the train will ... (more)

In the early hours of the day, a Union Pacific manifest train heads east past Hollenberg, KS on August 9, 2021.

Having just crossed from Nebraska into Kansas, Big Boy number 4014 heads east along the Marysville Subdivision past the community of Hollenberg on a sunny August 9, 2021.

ATSF GP30 sits at the station, with UP's station in the distance. UP's station was a union station, serving UP (Kansas Pacific), ATSF, MP and CRI&P.

Approaching Enterprise, the ASV excursion train rolls through the grass along an old Rock Island mainline.

A shot made from the top of the bleachers at the KWU stadium shows the UP's McPherson turn headed south behind a MP GE.

Three SD40s are still accelerating their KC-bound train a couple miles out of Coffeyville yard.