Going UP the hill....not as much fun as heading down....still, the Big Boy is making its way to Cheyenne on a snowy November morning.

UP 4014 (4-8-8-4) runs east of Cheyenne, Wyoming and muscles through Archer Hill. It was just announced that instead of the longer run to California this year, the Big Boy will make a run to Denv... (more)

UP 4023 and UP 6900 welcome travelers to Omaha every year for the Men's College World Series in Baseball, sitting on top of a hill overlooking the interstate and across from the old Rosenblatt Sta... (more)

UP 4014 rests on the siding at College Station, in preparation for the next day's excursion.

Big Boy #4014 makes the final push towards Ogden for the Spike 150 celebrations in May 2019. Despite the snow squall, the Big Boy put on a memorable show!

Union Pacific restored Big Boy #4014 as a PR tool for the railroad. As this view during a Spike 150 event shows, mission accomplished!

Big Boy 4014 gets an early start out of Evanston on its return trip to Cheyenne.

A man at the controls of any railroader's pride and joy - Ed Dickens and his team take big boy no. 4014 out of Fort Worth across railfan favorite Tower 55

UP Big Boy 4014 (4-8-8-4) splits the signals at Egbert, Wyoming. There are many railfans eagerly waiting to catch this beauty again this year as it runs west from Cheyenne.

A crowd has gathered to see the Big Boy while it makes a service stop in Cozad, Nebraska.

As the Big Boy clicked off the last few miles to the layover Fairbury, the light got to be pretty tough for an eastbound on the Marysville Sub. The train rolls along Alexandria Lake as the crowd p... (more)

The layover in Fairbury, NE, for the 4014 helped us do 2 days of the Big Boy without traveling too far. The only shot we did the 2nd day was here near Hanover. The train laid over at Fairbury on t... (more)

The layover in Fairbury, NE, for the 4014 helped us do 2 days of the Big Boy without traveling too far. The only shot we did the 2nd day was here near Hanover. The train laid over at Fairbury on t... (more)

Union Pacific 4014...the "Big Boy" quietly rests after traveling across the state of Minnesota, reaching its northernmost destination of Duluth. While there was no formal photoshoot o... (more)

Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 (4-8-8-4) runs through the iconic S curves of Archer Hill east of Cheyenne, Wyoming.