The Big Boy making its waited appearance in the small town of Grant Park, Illinois, on the Villa Grove Sub. Many people gathered along the tracks to see this historic steam engine pass by.
The Big Boy charging through downtown Wheaton. I was expecting a very large crowd here and I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of people.
More locomotives being pulled from Justin storage for cosmetic surgery at Wabtec.
UP 5801 is on the point of a Southbound manifest making a set out at Fleta, south of Mojave.
Three GEs, UP 7789, 7614, & 7936, lead a westbound stack train on the Marysville subdivision.
Union Pacific 7393, 7257, 5102 head westbound with the MNPWC.
UP 1826 (SD40N) works the ladders in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
UP 7504 (ES44AC) leads a freight north on the Joint Line through Castle Rock, Colorado.
UP 7388 (ES44AC) leads an oil can train west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub out of Denver, Colorado.
Here, we see the UP 4014 "Big Boy" early in its day-long journey from Rochelle to Villa Grove, IL, through Dekalb under the coaling tower. There was a line of us railfans here to capture... (more)
Sun breaks out between the clouds over CSX Selkirk Yard & Albany County back on a chilly, late March morning in 2013 with the Q364 having UP 7345, UP 8222 at that time an EMD SD9043MAC, & CSX 8763... (more)
All done and ready for delivery.
3 Union Pacific and 2 Ferromex locomotives await pick up from the BNSF with the Texas Motor Speedway in the far distance background.
UP 6436, 5754, & 8774 with westbound stacks between Dalhart, Texas & Nara Vista, New Mexico.
UP 6422 & 8568 lead westbound stacks.