Minutes after departing Union Depot, Big Boy picks up speed on its way out to Baldwin, Wisconsin and points further east.

Big Boy 4014 makes for an impressive sight from any angle, but if I was going to make the effort to join the throngs of admirers trackside during its visit to Minnesota, I wanted to see it in the ... (more)

4014 continues up the Hinckley Sub under the Highway 23 overpass in Brook Park.

UP 4014 crosses the Nemadji River trestle south of Boyleston and the village of Superior with its Great Race Across the Midwest steam special. The former Soo Line bridge is now owned by BNSF with ... (more)

The Great Race has begun as the Big Boy and 844 Lift their train out of Cheyenne, and up Sherman Hill in the #3 Track Harriman Line.

Union Pacific 4014 rolls the Spike 150 Special under the signal bridge at around milepost 678.25 just outside of Rawlins nearly 2 and a half hours late

Rolling into Granger. Engineer Ed Dickens is already slowing UP Locomotive #4014 as the train approaches the remote hamlet of Granger, WY, and a servicing stop that is scheduled to last abo... (more)

UP #4014 and #844 accelerate eastbound out of Evanston at Willis with the return trip from Ogden, UT.

Clean running at Leroy Road. Just less than an hour out of Evanston eastbound, UP Locomotives 4014 and 844 haul their special passenger train east (compass northeast) along Leroy Road, not ... (more)

Thunder in the canyon. After completing her epic journey to Ogden for the Spike 150 celebration, UP Locomotives 4014 and 844 take their special train back east, through Echo Canyon on the r... (more)

The eastbound lanes of I-84 contrasted with the westbound lanes show just how popular the Big Boy was in his return to steam. Here, between Henefer and Echo, the Big Boy coasts at a leisurely pac... (more)

U.P. Big Boy 4014 is dwarfed by the wide open Wyoming landscape of which the 4000's pounded through during their careers. 4014 is nearing the end of it's first day during the debuting run to Ogden... (more)

The Great Race To Ogden is well underway and in the way is the tiny town of Carter Wyoming. About a half mile out, the town of less than 10 people is about to become the center of the railfan u... (more)

The Spike 150 Train Excursion is rolling along at about 40 mph behind UP Big Boy No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844, paralleling old US Route 30 and I-84.