How many children will fit on a GP15? Too many, I'd say. UP 1563 is powering the 'HERBIE' safety train.

School kids line up to tour GP15-1 1563, which is powering the HERBIE safety special.

Union Pacific's restored Big Boy charges Westbound out of Hays, KS during an early morning snow storm.

With a three month old BNSF C4 leading the Salina to Denver manifest slowly rolls through downtown Hays.

Slowly rolling through a slow order in downtown Hays, NS 7606 and another NS unit are in charge of the twice weekly Salina to Denver manifest.

With the conductor standing by the derail, LLPX 2225 rolls off the south industrial track at Hays, Kansas.

MP's Herbie got updated after the UP merger, and is shown on tour at Hays, Kansas on the Kanas Pacific.

UP 8048 slowly drifts down the main at Hays siding as a westbound empty coal train slowly works its way up the siding. The sun is just minutes from setting below the horizon.

The Chicago and Northwestern heritage unit accelerates after having a meet with the KP's twice weekly eastbound manifest at Hays Siding. The 1995 is detouring on a westbound Armourdale, Kansas to ... (more)

A UP employee holds open the crossing gate arm as the UP Lifesaver Special gets ready to accept visitors.

This is what every SP locomotive looks like in my memories.

These two beasts haul an empty batch of coal cars west down the main line near Hays, KS