2/7/21

 It's another Steamy Sunday!  I am continuing to go back through the archives and finding images I never shared since I did not have an opportunity this past year for much of anything steamy.  This is an image of 4014, the Union Pacific Big Boy locomotive, shot very up close when I was able to see it in Salina Kansas west of me. 

12/15/19

I took this image of Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 in Salina, Kansas where it was overnighting after coming through my town.  The locomotive is so large and I was very close to it that I actually did a 4 image panoramic to get it all in, top to bottom and lengthwise.  The Big Boy got it's name from something that has been recreated on this locomotive and can be seen a bit in this image.  When the first one of this style locomotive was produced, number 4000, a worker chalked the words "Big Boy onto the smoke box door as is seen here and the name stuck for these as they are certainly big.  Their wheel arrangement is a 4-8-8-4 articulated style meaning it can move in the middle and navigate tighter curves.

12/8/19

I took this image at the Union Pacific depot in Salina Kansas on the day the Big Boy 4014 came through my town and several others on it's way back to Cheyenne Wyoming.  While it is not really that obvious that the steam train in the photo is 4014, it is my favorite image I took that day.  It had been cloudy and dreary the whole time up until about sunset when the clouds started to break up in the west and created this fabulous light which fell on the train, the station and even the tracks.  A great way to end my 4014 experience in Kansas.

9/10/19

Today starts the Palindrome days, things that read the same forwards as backwards, 9 10 19.  There are several in a row and will not happen again until Feb 02 2020.A little different post for today.  I love old train stations and I was in Salina Kansas recently and found this one.  This is the old Union Pacific Depot there and it is in need of repair but still a neat looking building.