UP 844 departs Evanston, Wyoming station as an avid railfan taking pictures just misses getting hit by the hot steam from the open cylinder cock.

UP 844W on its way to centennial celebrations for Roseville yard and WP RR as seen from the head-end of Amtrak 6, the California Zephyr.

UP 844 crests the grade at Moor, Nevada and prepares for the task of descending downgrade into Montello without the assistance of a diesels dynamic brakes.

UP 844 on its run from Oakland to Stockton

Clio, CA is known to many railfans familiar with the Feather River Canyon as THE trestle shot to shoot. Even with rain out for most of UP844 FRC Steam day, many locations still managed to work out... (more)

UP 844 crosses the bridge at Rock Creek as hundreds of people watch from below.

UP 844 crosses both Highway 70 and the Feather River at Tobin, underneath a spectacular plume.

We get a good look at the end of the train here as the bridge over the Feather River is engulfed in steam.

The cold damp weather makes for a nice plume of steam trailing the UP 844

UP 844 with the hammer down crosses the Clio trestle enroute to Portola.

Rock Creek Trestle, as viewed from river level.

If it weren't for the concrete ties, this shot could be from the days when steam ruled the rails.

Along the Feather River at Camp Layman

Passing a freight at Spring Garden

Hundreds of railfans are parked on the turnouts of Highway 70 to witness UP 844 cross the beautiful Rock Creek Trestle, bound for Portola.