Mainlining
That's not gonna fit in a syringe for mainlining. It is a dang good thing there are three of those mainlines right there or a mess is about to happen and maybe to me too.It looks like they have the up and down routes scrambled. This scene surely beats those BNSF ads on the PBS NewsHour! UP steam engine #844 is pushing on 4014's tender. HA. Boy. did they ever sneak by me quickly.
I hope the duo's drivers a-pounding the rails don't shake the upgrade UP off the rails! I had to run around to the other side of the UP signal tower in my last shot, when I saw the smoke coming down the hill from the Sherman, WY, Hermosa Tunnel. I had to crop to keep the hordes from the shot in little time. eDDie related the restoration of the Big Boy was within their $10 million budget. The rebuilt #844 fell in behind followed by an SD40 for safety, brakes, electricity and etc. Don't drop them million dollar Advertising Department's toys!
Wasache was the UP's designated engine name but a sheet metal worker wrote Big Boy on one piece and the new name stuck regardless of designations.
Late that night eDDie and I chased and located the unfinished grade and Royal Butte Tunnel on Fish Creek west of Virginia Dale using Google maps. Old Neal Miller told me of the tunnel and pointed it out a to me a couple of times. He found the tunnel. An outfit started grading north from Fort Collins and were blocked by rhe UP all the way. eDDie thought the destination was a quarry but much of the grade can be traced up to Virginia Dale and then west over to Fish Creek. Finding the the tunnel is hard unless you spot the grade up Fish Creek and shortly after the barely visible tunnel. Try Google maps @ 40.97870 and -105.413824.
I ran into fellow today who couldn't believe he missed #4014's runby. He could have shot it from the bridge at Laramie Depot if he liked the backs of heads with far more attending than Orange Bone Spur's inaugural.
Some of this Flickr work is taking a back seat to other projects including canning now 4 dozen jars of marinara sauce before the summer creeps up on us. Too late but yet another switcharoo!
Union Pacific moved trains while we waited and waited while folks continually checked their cells for the progress of the rebuilt steamers from Cheyenne. This UP & Chessie drag was on the uphill grade from Laramie east to the tunnel but who knows where it will be held when the steamers push through on mainline. The signal tower is reflecting the bright morning sun. My cousin confuses the word steamers with his doggy leftovers in his back yard.
Mainlining
That's not gonna fit in a syringe for mainlining. It is a dang good thing there are three of those mainlines right there or a mess is about to happen and maybe to me too.It looks like they have the up and down routes scrambled. This scene surely beats those BNSF ads on the PBS NewsHour! UP steam engine #844 is pushing on 4014's tender. HA. Boy. did they ever sneak by me quickly.
I hope the duo's drivers a-pounding the rails don't shake the upgrade UP off the rails! I had to run around to the other side of the UP signal tower in my last shot, when I saw the smoke coming down the hill from the Sherman, WY, Hermosa Tunnel. I had to crop to keep the hordes from the shot in little time. eDDie related the restoration of the Big Boy was within their $10 million budget. The rebuilt #844 fell in behind followed by an SD40 for safety, brakes, electricity and etc. Don't drop them million dollar Advertising Department's toys!
Wasache was the UP's designated engine name but a sheet metal worker wrote Big Boy on one piece and the new name stuck regardless of designations.
Late that night eDDie and I chased and located the unfinished grade and Royal Butte Tunnel on Fish Creek west of Virginia Dale using Google maps. Old Neal Miller told me of the tunnel and pointed it out a to me a couple of times. He found the tunnel. An outfit started grading north from Fort Collins and were blocked by rhe UP all the way. eDDie thought the destination was a quarry but much of the grade can be traced up to Virginia Dale and then west over to Fish Creek. Finding the the tunnel is hard unless you spot the grade up Fish Creek and shortly after the barely visible tunnel. Try Google maps @ 40.97870 and -105.413824.
I ran into fellow today who couldn't believe he missed #4014's runby. He could have shot it from the bridge at Laramie Depot if he liked the backs of heads with far more attending than Orange Bone Spur's inaugural.
Some of this Flickr work is taking a back seat to other projects including canning now 4 dozen jars of marinara sauce before the summer creeps up on us. Too late but yet another switcharoo!
Union Pacific moved trains while we waited and waited while folks continually checked their cells for the progress of the rebuilt steamers from Cheyenne. This UP & Chessie drag was on the uphill grade from Laramie east to the tunnel but who knows where it will be held when the steamers push through on mainline. The signal tower is reflecting the bright morning sun. My cousin confuses the word steamers with his doggy leftovers in his back yard.