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Big Boy No. 4014 - In 2019 the train started and ended its journey through the Midwest in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as part of Union Pacific’s 150th-anniversary celebration of the transcontinental railroad. Union Pacific is called it the "Great Race Across the Midwest" as a tribute to The Great Race to Promontory in 1869. However, it is not a literal race, just the Big Boy No. 4014 that visited towns to meet train enthusiasts of all ages.
In its prime, Big Boy No. 4014 traveled more than 1 million miles during its 20 years of service. It was retired in 1961. The locomotive is 132 feet long.
Union Pacific worked to restore the steam locomotive for more than two years. The steam locomotive is one of eight of its type still in existence. In its heyday, there were 25 locomotives of its kind. Big Boy No. 4014 is the only functioning one. The other seven trains are sprinkled throughout the Midwest. One of them resides in Green Bay, Wisconsin, at the National Railroad Museum. Seen he...

I thank you for taking the time to stop by and visit. I hope that you will enjoy the time spent here. Photography is one of my passions in life. I enjoy traveling and the adventures it has brought me. Although I have lived in Wisconsin all of my life, I have had the time and opportunity to travel beyond. Living in Wisconsin, with it's four seasons of changing weather leaves me with endless opportunities for ever changing scenery. For these reasons I enjoy nature, and landscape photography the most. The latest additions to my Galleries. All of the art work found here is available to be printed on canvas, metal, acrylic, or as gallery prints and fine art greeting cards. A selection of matts and frames are also available for...