After spending the night in Sidney, UP 4014 is headed east to North Platte near Sunol NE.

The UP 4014 2021 Tour is underway as the 4014 passes the foamers at Archer, WY.

Day three of #4014's trip to New Orleans. Bypassing Council Bluffs this time means the passenger consist will be picked up elsewhere.

UP 4014 departing North Platte for points east. The 4014 will run to Gibbon on the Kearney Sub & then take the Marysville Sub to Fairbury, NE where it will overnight.

Day three of #4014's trip to New Orleans. Bypassing Council Bluffs this time means the passenger consist will be picked up elsewhere.

Detail of the number boards surrounding the headlight of Big Boy 4014.

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.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 splits the signals as it runs eastward towards its second layover spot at North Platte, Nebraska

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.