Welcome to another fastpaced adventure with the UP Steam Crew and the Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4014! For the year of 2023, Union Pacific management was gracious enough to grant the UP Steam Crew the opportunity to run the Big Boy for the "2023 Home Plate Express"A special move to Omaha, Nebraska where the locomotive will stand on display in celebration of the 2023 College Baseball World Series.
In this video, watch as the train departs Cheyenne on a beautiful summer morning. At Egbert, the locomotive and train is turned Northward onto Union Pacific's Yoder subdivision. Union Pacific 844 was the most recent locomotive to traverse this line, back in 2012. However, it is our understanding that prior to this trip, a Big Boy locomotive had never traversed this territory before, making this a historic and big moment in UP Steam History.
From Egbert, we travel North to the day's first stop of Albin, WY. We then set up post in the typical Wyoming wind to watch 4014 dive into the famed "Albin Tunnel." We then wrap up with one more runby, just South of the day's next service stop of La Grange.
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