UP 844 lays over at Council Bluffs, waiting for the next day's run to Kansas City.

There maybe not be stranger bedfellows on any railroad in the world... FEF3 844 and DD40X 6936. Notice that 844 has its smokebox door removed as part its regular maintenance.

UP 844 was spending the night in Grand Island for Railroad Days.

Men at work.....

Slight pan shot with reflection of the Portland Rose's leading locomotive: Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844.

Driver 8 rarely takes a break during Wyoming’s Cheyenne Frontier Days. UP 844 gives off steam and a loud whistle and heads off into an early morning sunrise, taking passengers from Denver to Ch... (more)

UP 844 sits on display at CSRM on a warm summer night

Like a view through a porthole of a worker in a shipyard, here is a member of Union Pacific’s Steam Shop crew grinding in the firebox of 4-8-4 No. 844, looking through the firebox door opening i... (more)

Inside the heart of a steam locomotive
Well, maybe the boiler is the heart, but perhaps we can think of the firebox as where a locomotive gets her “life.” The famous Union Pacific N... (more)

Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Work is being done on the superheaters and firebox, among other things. Steam locomo... (more)

Always a favorite, Union Pacific No. 844 gets some off-season work done at the Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on March 25, 2013. Note the easily-seen twin stacks with the smokebox door removed a... (more)

Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 storms upgrade through Erda on its way to Salt Lake City. This is the last stretch of upgrade on the LA&SL Route as it wraps around the Oquirrah Mountains. Soon the train ... (more)

A member of the Union Pacific 8444 crew works on the brake system as the locomotive sits in the Las Vegas yard.

Union Pacific's Railfair '91 passenger special glides downgrade through Weber Canyon just west of CP Strawberry in Mountain Green, Utah.

What an amazing day to be a fan of classic UP steam power! On April 24, 1991, Union Pacific steam locomotives 844 and 3985 lead a lengthy passenger special west out of Salt Lake City bound for Rai... (more)