After a day long run from Rawlins, Wyoming, UP PRWLM2-17 finally rolls into Laramie, WY where it will spend the next day before heading back to Cheyenne, completing “The Great Race to Promontory... (more)
The mighty engine seems to be recalling her coal-fired days as she heels into a curve on the former SP route as the grand tour approaches San Antonio. As most everywhere else the whole population... (more)
Tuesday afternoon, I was able to get out for a little bit to catch the Big Boy rolling into Topeka on its jaunt west from KC. These photos were taken from MP 67 on the Kansas Sub, otherwise known ... (more)
This close-up shows where the 4014's eccentric rod connects to the eccentric crank. Such terms all but disappeared from American's engineering vocabulary when diesels knocked steam off the rails.