Northbound UP "Great Race Across the Southwest" Passenger Train at Coffeyville, KS
Big Boy 4014 puts on a spectacular exhaust display while departing with UP Train PCVKC2 17 for a run to Kansas City Union Station via the UP Coffeyville Sub. on a cool, damp fall morning.
I was kind of hoping the sun might break out in time for this angle to backlight the steam, but the volume of emission certainly made up for the lack of dramatic light. I purposely decided to include the old Missouri Pacific floodlight tower over the yard in this frame. It's ordinary and often overlooked subtle details like this that I encourage you to include in shots with the overall lack "artifacts" of on today's homogenized, generic looking mainlines. One day it'll all be gone.
Locomotives: UP 4014, UP 8824
11-17-19
Coffeyville, KS
Northbound UP "Great Race Across the Southwest" Passenger Train at Coffeyville, KS
Big Boy 4014 puts on a spectacular exhaust display while departing with UP Train PCVKC2 17 for a run to Kansas City Union Station via the UP Coffeyville Sub. on a cool, damp fall morning.
I was kind of hoping the sun might break out in time for this angle to backlight the steam, but the volume of emission certainly made up for the lack of dramatic light. I purposely decided to include the old Missouri Pacific floodlight tower over the yard in this frame. It's ordinary and often overlooked subtle details like this that I encourage you to include in shots with the overall lack "artifacts" of on today's homogenized, generic looking mainlines. One day it'll all be gone.
Locomotives: UP 4014, UP 8824
11-17-19
Coffeyville, KS