Union Pacific: Southeast Wyoming Big Boy Tour

Filmed June 30, 2024.
Thundering down the Wyoming plains is the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 on the start of its Westbound Tour. Built in 1941, 4014 is one of many Big Boys built for Union Pacific's heavy freight trains, mostly up the mountains. In 1960s, the Big Boys were withdrawn from service and 4014 was preserved at the RailGiants Train Museum in California. In 2013, the Union Pacific reaquired the locomotive and it was moved from California to Cheyenne in 2016 to be restored. In 2019, Big Boy 4014 returned under steam and in operating condition for the first time. Today, it is now part the steam program making special steam tours and special trips. Shots of this video show different spots of Big Boy 4014 in Laramie and racing to Rawlins in Southwestern Wyoming as the first part of its Westbound Tour. Other footage includes two display locomotives in Cheyenne (one of which is 4014's sister 4004); another on Laramine; a caboose in Sinclair; and a freight train near Medicine Bow.
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