With the morning sun rising in the sky, UP 844 is steamed up and ready to depart Salina, Kansas westward for Sharon Springs.

Three steam locomotives simmer on a hot, humid late spring afternoon at St. Louis, Missouri, on June 13, 1990, in a gathering to celebrate Trains Magazine’s 50th anniversary. Union Pacific 4-8-4... (more)

Greyhound
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844, decked out in two-tone “Greyhound” paint, crosses the West Fork of Shoal Creek west of Hillsboro, Illinois, on June 14, 1990. The Northern pull... (more)

At the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis, TRAINS Magazine had a special and private photo staged in the afternoon where all four participating steam locomotives would be lined up for its staffers.... (more)

Union Pacific Nos. 844 and 3985 doublehead on the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days train as the train storms through Hazeltine (Rolla), Colorado, on July 23, 2005.

Union Pacific #844 rests overnight in Ogden Utah before crossing the Wasatch Mountains on its way back home to Cheyanne Wyo.

Two crew from UP 844 grease the huge drive wheels prior to heading back to the Cheyenne, Wyoming for Frontier Days

Racing along at track speed, UP 844 and 6936 lead the Cheyenne Frontier Days Special back to Denver through Peckham, CO after taking people to the Daddy of Em' All Rodeo in Cheyenne, WY.

UP 844 leads the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days train through the signals at the south end of Platteville siding. UP has been doing work on this part of the former Denver Pacific, meaning the telep... (more)

UP 844 thunders across the high desert on the way back from visiting New Mexico and Arizona.

At daybreak the crew of UP 844 brings the heat up, evidenced by the dancing flames under the fire box.

A bright Colorado sunrise reflects off the nose of UP 844. The red Mars light which sat just above the headlight has been recently removed, apparently in an effort to backdate the appearance of t... (more)

UP 844 gets a helping hand from UP 6936 (DD40X) while pulling 23 passenger cars (including 7 dome cars). It has just left Denver early in the morning and is headed to Cheyenne, Wyoming to celebra... (more)

On this mild yet humid evening, UP #844 and UP #6936 race out of Brighton, CO at track speed as they bring back people to Denver from the Daddy of Em' All Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne,... (more)