With wisps of steam filling the air, Union Pacific Senior Manager of Heritage Operations, Ed Dickens, confirms the blue flag has been placed on UP 4014 as the locomotive's mechanical crew prepares... (more)

A photo, nor video, can truly capture the experience of what it's like to stand next to an active 4000 class steam locomotive. Brief moments like this, however, where wisps of steam and the glint ... (more)

Dawn Breaks Over Big Boy. It's just after 6:00 a.m. on the morning of October 13, 2019, as the Union Pacific steam crew prepares UP 4014 for the return trip to West Colton today via Cajon P... (more)

Ed Dickens - All Smiles. Union Pacific's famed senior manager of the railroad's heritage operations, Ed Dickens, is all smiles this evening after successfully bringing UP 4014 over Cajon Pa... (more)

As dawn breaks in Yermo, the flicker from the firebox gently illuminates the trailing truck's rear wheels beneath the massive firebox of UP 4014 as the locomotive is prepared for it's journey to W... (more)

Ms. Barstow and Teen Ms. Barstow pose in front UP's big Boy #4014 after it ran from Las Vegas, NV to Yermo, CA on its historic trip to Los Angeles, CA.

It is early in the morning g as UP 3092, with UP 3551 and UP 3553 have brought a westbound grain train to a stop in the Yermo yard. On the distant track, UP 49, UP 47, UP 3090 and WP 3536 begin t... (more)

A westbound UP freight with six SD40-2's near Yermo, California on November 25, 1989.

UP SD40-2 3727 and SD40-2 3385.

UP GP38-2 2126 ex-MP 2126 and UP SD40-2 3711 at Yermo, California.

Union Pacific GE C30-7 2420 with Conrail C40-8W 740 at Yermo, California.

UP SD60M 6291 and 6041.

Union Pacific 49 has gotten a green signal and is beginning to move westbound out of the Yermo yard. In the land of SD40-2s, it was not very often we would see an SD-45 on the point of a manifest... (more)