Overland Icons
A comparison a century and a half apart.
The one photo I wanted of the eastbound Spike150 celebratory train starting back on the first day of their eastbound journey over the famed UP mainline for which they were built.
Compare my image to the one in this link by A.J. Russell or possibly William Henry Jackson in 1869, courtesy of the Library of Congress:
www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a19082/
The mainline has been double tracked, the truss bridge is steel instead of wood, and the steam engine has gotten slightly bigger! But other than that little has changed in a century in a half along the Union Pacific Railroad mainline, route of the first transcontinental.
This is Taggarts Tunnel or Tunnel 8 at MP 963.2 on the modern Evanston Sub at the crossing of the Weber River.
Big Boy 4014 and 844 lead the special east toward Evanston on the first leg of their journey back east to Cheyenne, WY.
It just doesn't get more iconic than this and what a site to behold!
#4014returns
Sunday May 12, 2019
Overland Icons
A comparison a century and a half apart.
The one photo I wanted of the eastbound Spike150 celebratory train starting back on the first day of their eastbound journey over the famed UP mainline for which they were built.
Compare my image to the one in this link by A.J. Russell or possibly William Henry Jackson in 1869, courtesy of the Library of Congress:
www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3a19082/
The mainline has been double tracked, the truss bridge is steel instead of wood, and the steam engine has gotten slightly bigger! But other than that little has changed in a century in a half along the Union Pacific Railroad mainline, route of the first transcontinental.
This is Taggarts Tunnel or Tunnel 8 at MP 963.2 on the modern Evanston Sub at the crossing of the Weber River.
Big Boy 4014 and 844 lead the special east toward Evanston on the first leg of their journey back east to Cheyenne, WY.
It just doesn't get more iconic than this and what a site to behold!
#4014returns
Sunday May 12, 2019