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| Title: |
First contact |
| Description: |
I went up to Kansas to follow UP 4014 from its overnight stop in Hays to Sharon Springs. The train was back in the yard at Hays, so I went out along the line hoping for a shot that would work for a westbound in the morning. I caught him here at Yocimento, along old US 40, which follows the tracks from Hays to Ellis. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/20/2024 5:47:59 AM |
| Location: |
Ellis, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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2 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Bringing up the rear |
| Description: |
West of Kansas City, the consist changed. It had been entirely a passenger train the week before, when I chased from Muskogee north on the ex MP. Now, there was a cut of covered hoppers and box cars, along with this bay window caboose. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:20:56 AM |
| Location: |
Ellis, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
RollingStock,Action |
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7 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
On the river |
| Description: |
The 4014 crosses the Ellis River, whose water was once used to supply steam power when this was a division point. It had made a public viewing stop here. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/20/2024 6:25:21 AM |
| Location: |
Ellis, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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2 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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4 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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8 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Caboose on Big Creek |
| Description: |
The KC to Cheyenne version of the UP 4014 tour carried 11 freight cars, and a caboose, seen here on Big Creek in Ellis Kan. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 5:55:16 AM |
| Location: |
Ellis, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,RollingStock,Bridge,Action |
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| Title: |
Past the grain bins |
| Description: |
The 4014 rolls past grain bins at WaKeeney. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:21:47 AM |
| Location: |
WaKeeney, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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| Title: |
Passing another Kansas landmark |
| Description: |
The 4014 rolls past the elevator in the small town of Collyer. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:28:12 AM |
| Location: |
Collyer, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Whistling through |
| Description: |
The 4014 blasts between a pair of automatics as it whistles through Collyer |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:30:43 AM |
| Location: |
Collyer, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Signal,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Title: |
And a pan shot, too |
| Description: |
The 4014 passes my position along "old 40" as it heads west. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:42:08 AM |
| Location: |
Park, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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11 Comments: 0 |
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| 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) |
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| Title: |
Quite a crowd |
| Description: |
The turnout for the steam train, even in some of the smaller towns along the route, was impressive.Grainfield isnt near much, but there was still a large crowd there. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:54:08 AM |
| Location: |
Grainfield, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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5 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Close up |
| Description: |
A close up shot of 4014s smoke box, flanked by the US and Kansas flags, a UP special agent at the ready. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/21/2024 6:58:50 AM |
| Location: |
Grainfield, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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6 Comments: 0 |
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