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12/23/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:GE C44-9WBuilt As:SP 8161 (C44-9W)
Serial Number:47991Order No:1823SP
Frame Number:Built:10/1994
Notes:ex-SP
Other locos with this serial:  UP 9625(C44-9W) SP 8161(C44-9W)
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First one
Title:  First one
Description:  A telephoto shot shows the 4014 passing two elevators here in Park Kan.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:34:55 AM
Location:  Park, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  8   Comments: 0
Then two
Title:  Then two
Description:  The 4014, now a little farther through town, passes the second elevator as he makes his way west to a public stop in Grainfield.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:39:48 AM
Location:  Park, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4)
Views:  10   Comments: 0
Public stop
Title:  Public stop
Description:  The 4014 made several public stops this day, as it would the next in Colorado. A couple were posted on the website; some, like Ellis earlier in the day, were not. All of them gave the legion of chasers a chance to catch their breath and get some local shots and get ahead. This would not be much of a factor in the chase strategy between Hays and Oakley, where I 70 was the chase road, but would make a difference later on. The train sits at its Grainfield stop, as depicted by the sign.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:46:51 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  8   Comments: 0
A wider view
Title:  A wider view
Description:  The 4014 rolls west in the morning near Yocimento as the world turns into the browns of winter,
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:02:08 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  9   Comments: 0
Starting out
Title:  Starting out
Description:  The public viewing has concluded, and the is now getting underway west in a view of the grain elevator area, a common sight in this part of the system.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:26:50 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
Prairie panorama
Title:  Prairie panorama
Description:  The moves away from Grainfield ina wide angle view that show the ag facilities that mark much of the economic activity in towns such as this.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:31:55 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
Away and some train
Title:  Away and some train
Description:  Another going away shot, this time with some of the consist. The make up of the train changed west of Kansas City, now consisting of the canteens, a couple of tool cars, a pair of coaches for the crew, and 11 freight cars, a mix of covered hoppers and box cars.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:45:09 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  7   Comments: 0
Full train away
Title:  Full train away
Description:  A going away shot of the full train shows the new consist.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:49:20 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
More grain
Title:  More grain
Description:  Another going away shot of the train, now approaching another small elevator just west of Grainfield.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:52:37 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  6   Comments: 0
Across the field
Title:  Across the field
Description:  As the train made its way toward the next town, I was able to get off the interstate and get a wide shot from a side road.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:55:24 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
Broad view
Title:  Broad view
Description:  A broadside view of the train as it pulls away from me.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 6:59:25 AM
Location:  Grainfield, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  5   Comments: 0
Going away
Title:  Going away
Description:  The going away view of the train at Yocimento. The accompanying diesel is the same on I saw on the train a week earlier in Oklahoma.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:14:46 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  4   Comments: 0
Clean fire
Title:  Clean fire
Description:  The 4014 shows only a little smoke as it approaches Grinell.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/22/2024 7:02:27 AM
Location:  Grinnell, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  8   Comments: 0
Wider view
Title:  Wider view
Description:  A wider angle shows the steam engine and the back up diesel crossing the Ellis River
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:33:31 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  6   Comments: 0
Canteens
Title:  Canteens
Description:  Some roads called them cisterns. In todays world with its lack of watering facilities, steam trains need to carry a lot of water, which UP does by adding these two cars to the train, seen here on the Big Creek bridge at Ellis.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:35:49 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4)
Views:  7   Comments: 0
A little help from my friends
Title:  A little help from my friends
Description:  The steam train have a diesel that accompanies the train in case of road failure. For this train, it was this nicely clean GE.
Photo Date:  10/20/2024  Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:42:53 AM
Location:  Ellis, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9625(C44-9W)
Views:  11   Comments: 0


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