UP 4014 crosses grassy point into Minnesota while tornado warnings and severe storms happen to the south.

On the cold, damp, rainy morning of May 8, 2019, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 descends the Wasatch grade at Castle Rock, Utah. The locomotive leads the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike spec... (more)

At 6:22 a.m. on May 6, 2019, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Northern No. 844 power a westbound passenger special, going to the 150th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike, into Grange... (more)

After a long and eventful day, Union Pacific 4014 (Big Boy) rests under the stars in UP's Beverly yard. The Big Boy will depart Beverly at approximately 0900 in the morning, to visit the state cap... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 slumbers away on the siding at the Larry S. Provo Training Center in West Chicago, IL, posing for night photos for the various photographers and railfans that have come... (more)

Union Pacific 4014 arrives in Granger Wy in the very early morning in May 2019 on its first trip west since being restored

Eastbound on the Kearney Sub.

Conductor Del Trefry has just thrown a switch in the UP's North Yard and provides a good scale comparison of the monster size of the Big Boy locomotive 4014, which is emerging from a cloud of stea... (more)

UP 4014 Big Boy puts on a steam and plume show on a cold winter morning as it heads north from Prescott towards Little Rock, Arkansas.

The sun has just come up and it is 28 degrees as the Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy waits to head north from Prescott towards Little Rock, Arkansas.

A year ago to this day Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 stopped in Denver and was pounded by a massive snow storm. With heavy snow falling, the UP team has cleared switches in the North Yard of ice and ... (more)

Winter Solstice

The softness of beautiful winter evening light captivates the frozen steam from his majesty the Big Boy. Wasatch class 4-8-8-4 is nearly home after an astoundin... (more)

Big Boy over Kiowa Creek

A year ago a brisk Union Pacific 4014 chase from Limon to Denver wrapped up for me at the ancient Warren quadrangular truss east of Bennett, CO over th... (more)

Finally heading home after two months on the road, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steams over 76th Street at milepost 7 between Adams and Dupont, Colorado on the Greeley Subdivision after departin... (more)

4014 rounds a curve after exiting San Timeteo Canyon on its way out of California to Yuma, AZ.