Here is UP 844 as she crosses the bridge on track #2 at Verdi on a warm spring morning. This was the first time seeing, and photographing this historic steamer, and I will not soon forget the sigh... (more)

UP's 4-8-4 emerges from the 10,325 foot Tunnel 41 aka the "Big Hole", after cresting 1.80% grade inside the tunnel. They'll soon stop to take water at Soda Springs, and continue the journey West t... (more)

With the truss bridge over the Truckee River standing tall, UP 844 battles up the 1.6 percent grade through the Truckee River Canyon, at a location known as Iceland.

At Yuba Gap, just West of where the SP's City of San Francisco was snowbound in 1952.