Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy Chase 5/19/19

[ogauge47]

Hey all! I just got back for a weekend trip out to Wyoming to shoot the eastbound deadhead of the Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy from Laramie to Cheyenne. UP FEF-3 844 came along for the ride too.

UP 4014 under the searchlight signals at Tie Siding, WY



Granite, WY





Arriving in Cheyenne

[chuck]

Nice shots. Thanks for posting.

[rogruth]

What are the things in the third photo on the left that look like three lights, or something, on a pole?
And the two things a little more distant that look almost like lower quadrant semaphores?

[chuck]

Two of the things are speaker horns. The third is a blue Mars light. I assume these are some kind of alarm system.

The more distant units are signal lamps, back side. I think those are just colored lights. They probably have the "darth vader" shades that the UP pioneered.

Google Earth shows a large quarry operation just up the grade and mostly to the right. I don't know if the horns/lights are tied to this facility.

[rogruth]

Thanks, Chuck.

[Tranz4mr]

Nice photos Lucas. I traveled up there too and came back with some video. 4014 is pretty impressive. I’ll be heading up to Sidney Nebraska 8/6 and 8/7 to do some chasing.
Video was at Harriman WY not Harrison as the title says.
https://youtu.be/BEas9OixdAU

[chuck]

Nice video, thanks for posting the link. Really impressive seeing it under steam!

[Tranz4mr]

Thanks. Next time I’ll need to find some windscreen material to cover the built in camera mic. Harriman was an old water/coal stop on a desolate dirt road 20 miles west of Cheyenne just over the Colorado Wyoming line except there were about a thousand people there. Hopefully the crowds will have had their fill on the next trip.

[rogruth]

Kent,
Thanks for posting.
I wanted to wave as they went by.
Very impressive locos, all three.
I thought the train was also surprisingly quiet.