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)

Big Boy & The Mother Road. UP 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, is close to completing it's first excursion day for the RailGiants Train Museum as the massive 4-8-8... (more)

Cajon Summit - Above The Crowd. With the rear of its train clear of the switch at Silverwood, UP 4014 and it's train of 23 passenger cars prepare to crest the summit of Cajon Pass as at lea... (more)

Be Ready for the Dynos Again. With the mountains of the conquered Cajon Pass providing the backdrop, UP 4014 climbs the final "grade" of the day as it crests over the 210 freeway ... (more)

UP 4014 crosses one of the two steel bridges located east of Victorville as it prepares to stop for a red signal to allow the train ahead of it to get a little farther down the line. Once the bloc... (more)

UP 4014, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world, lives up to its fame this afternoon as close to a thousand people gather at Victorville for their chance to view the 4-8-8-4 during it... (more)

Get Your Kicks, err, 4014...on Route 66. Paralelling the famous "Mother Road" on an approach signal to proceed into town, UP 4014 works up the slight grade into Victorville as the... (more)

Making its triumphant return to Southern California after leaving in 2014, and now fully operational, UP 4014 eases across one of the two iconic steel bridges located just east of Victorville as t... (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)

UP 4014 prepares to depart home rails and enter BNSF's Transcon at Daggett as the massive 4-8-8-4 proudly returns to Southern California under steam.

1,990 Days Later. Just 10 days shy of the 2,000 mark from the day it last traveled over Cajon Pass, April 28, 2014, when it begin it's road to restoration - UP 4014 triumphantly returns to ... (more)

1.2 Million Pounds Flys Over Frost. Making it's historic return to Southern California, Union Pacific's "Big Boy" steam locomotive, UP 4014, flys over a UP manifest at Frost as it... (more)

UP 2769 leads a westbound intermodal over BNSF's San Bernardino Subdivision and through Metrolink's Riverside station as it closes in on home rails at the western end of town.

Catching a glimpse of the golden hour light between Tunnels 27 and 26, SCAX 896 prepares to lean into the curve on the point of Metrolink 119 as it approaches the later of the two mentioned tunnel... (more)

Framed between the rising mountains of Tehachapi, dotted with windmills eager to catch the passing gusts of wind at this location, a westbound BNSF manifest slugs upgrade into Cameron on a warm af... (more)