2/19/23

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  I am still back in the archives.  Today's image is from a trip to Nebraska a few years back.  This is a Big Boy that is on display in Omaha.  It is one of 20 that were built and operated between 1941 and 1959.  It is on display in Kenefick Park named for a former Union Pacific President, John C Kenefick.  He had a dream for 2 of the largest locomotives to be perched overlooking Omaha and in 2005 this became a reality.  4023 is partnered with diesel locomotive Centennial 6900.  If you enter Omaha on I-80 from the east, you can see them above you in the park.

8/11/19

Today's post is another from the day I got to see Union Pacific's newly restored Big Boy locomotive 4014 in action.  This was on our way back home at one of the old high bridges of the UP in Omaha, Nebraska.  On this one there is no fence in the foreground.  It was a first for me to shoot a train on a high bridge like this and with such a neat subject as this large locomotive.

7/14/19

I have something special for today's steamy Sunday shot on the Blog.  Union Pacific recently finished restoring the largest operating steam engine 4014, the Big Boy a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement locomotive.  There were 25 of them built and only 8 remain and now one is back in operation.  I drove a significant distance on Friday to Fremont Nebraska in the hopes of getting to photograph it under steam as it came into town and then maybe as it left town.  I ended up getting a chance to see it 5 times and photograph it 4 different times.  This was the last time and was as it was moving into Omaha Nebraska and crossing one of the very tall UP trestles.  It was a beautiful sight to see and listen to, it sounds so quiet in comparison to other steam locomotives and it's whistle is so deep and melodious.