As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

One of these is not like the others..... While the BNSF is busy repainting their older units in the Heritage III paint scheme (the 'Swoosh') there is one veteran still wearing its paint from 1974... (more)

Union Pacific's Big Boy engineer Ed Dickens pilots the locomotive as it runs towards Omaha for the College Baseball World Series.

Good Morning NOLA. 2 years ago right about now, UP 4014 was just starting to get the steam going for the trip over the Huey P. Long Bridge and beyond.

Union Pacific 4014 (Big Boy) in Schuyler

Big Boy On Easy Street. The Union Pacific Railroad's 4014 ("Big Boy", 4-8-8-4, Alco, 1941) made a stop in the community of Luling, Louisiana in St.Charles Parish on August 20, 202... (more)

Union Pacific's Big Boy #4014 back into Denver's North Yard, which still has the old Colorado and Southern water tower standing.

UP 4014 runs through the cactus and wildflowers and it heads towards Lake McConaughy, Nebraska.

Double Heading eastbound, Union Pacific No. 4014 and No. 844 exit Tunnel No. 7 as they climb to the Summit at Wasatch on the Overland Route.

Coming in for the whistle stop in Columbus, the Home Plate Express eases along with the careful eye of Ed Dickens looking ahead.

In a scene that looks like it could of been taken in Cheyenne back in the 1950s, UP 4014 emerges from the steam as it begins to leave Prescott for Little Rock, Arkansas. It was a brisk 25 degrees,... (more)

Got 80 Gallons? On July 14, 2009, Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy" 4006 (4-8-8-4, Alco, 1941) was sitting on a display track at The National Museum of Tranportation in St. Louis, ... (more)

Sometimes even a member of the Union Pacific 4014 crew has to stop for a moment and admire the Big Boy. It is a cold 20 degrees as the crew prepares the 4014 for the trip north to Little Rock, Ar... (more)

It is a brisk 25 degrees as Union Pacific 4014 races north from Texarkana towards Hope, Arkansas. The cold weather sure made the steam in the exhaust turn a bright white, which looked great again... (more)

A crew member working on the cab window of Union Pacific 4014 gives the viewer a scale of just how massive the Big Boy is. It was a very cold 20 degrees as the Big Boy is prepared for the run from... (more)