Welcome back to California Big Boy 4014! UP's Big Boy 4014 passes through the old SP location of Mons, where a set of double crossovers once were. It truly was an amazing sight to see a Big Boy cr... (more)

UP 4014 on its way through Mohawk during The Great Race Across the Southwest

UP 4014 on its way through Dome valley during The Great Race Across the Southwest

“World Famous” UP Big Boy #4014 takes charge of POGEN1-12 as they hustle into Morgan, UT upon starting the return leg of the Great Race to Promontory. It’s hard to believe that over five months ha... (more)

Named for vintage railroad photographer Herb Sullivan, a rancher from Placentia, California, who created iconic photographs of trains on this curve in the 1930s and 1940s, and the curve was later ... (more)

The Tour of the Bigboy! After spending a night in Yuma, AZ the UP 4014 and train get on its way to continue the "Great Race Across the Southwest" as they try to make up time. The steam team is run... (more)

UP's Big Boy steam locomotive rumbles through the desert paradise of Palm Springs, CA on its eastbound trip from West Colton, CA to Yuma, AZ. From there, the steam crew will continue on with their... (more)

Big Boy - Eastbound and Down: Following a weekend of successful excursions over Cajon Pass, the Big Boy has turned eastward as it begins to traverse the Sunset Route with stops in Yuma, Tus... (more)

Passing through a Cajon Pass landmark, the Mormon Rocks (created by the San Andreas Fault) is Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014, leading a 23-car passenger train from Barstow to the railroad’s West Col... (more)

Union Pacific No. 4014 turns full power as it crosses over from the Palmdale cutoff to the BNSF Cajon Sub at Silverwood just before it crests the summit of the famed Cajon Pass.

UP Big Boy 4014 leads a long passenger special over the Cajon Wash and up the Palmdale Cutoff enroute to Yermo. A couple diesel helpers are in tow for the climb up Cajon Pass.

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)

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)

Since Mojave Road into Afton Canyon was flooded, we had to take the back route into the canyon. Because of this (or the fact that it was a Tuesday afternoon) we had the canyon virtually to ourselv... (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.