On a humid morning, Ed Dickens puts on a show with UP 4014 as they thunder north for Duluth past a deadline of stored SD70MAc’s at BNSF’s Northtown Yard in Minneapolis.

UP 4014 crosses grassy point into Minnesota while tornado warnings and severe storms happen to the south.

I was running on just an hour of sleep and was up at 4am chasing CN around Escanaba to start the day. As the many railfans and normal people attempt to line up and take a photo of this beast, the ... (more)

UP 4014 leads the tour train north through Boylston during a rain shower.

UP Big Boy 4014 leads a passenger special west past the deadline at Northtown.

UP Big Boy 4014 leads a Duluth bound passenger special across the Grassy Point bridge.

The Big Boy crosses the Saint Louis Bay as it makes its way to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth.