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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 |
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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: |
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: |
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: |
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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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| 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) |
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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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| 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) |
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| Title: |
Another town, another elevator |
| Description: |
There was a brief stop at Oakley, where theres a small yard. There was construction downtown, and access was difficult, especially for someone driving a Winnebago, as I was. I took up a position at the west end of town, near a typically tall elevator. The clouds had been building since Grainfield, and now were pretty heavy, making for a dark scene. Theyd clear by the time we got to Sharon Springs. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/24/2024 6:23:48 AM |
| Location: |
Oakley, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Wide open |
| Description: |
Now away from the interstate, the line crosses the high plains, and, aside from the road(and the marker for buried cable), is about the only sign of mankind in this remote country |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/24/2024 6:38:54 AM |
| Location: |
Winona, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Blowin in the wind |
| Description: |
One of the main features of the high plains is the wind, which was strong, and you feel it constantly, especially in an RV. Its blowing the 4014s smoke as the train passes the signal and a lone cottonwood at McAllaster. Note the lineside pole at far left, with four stripes. UP marks its poles, where they still exist, with up to four stripes, each marking a quarter mile. This one is at a milepost, having four. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/24/2024 6:42:07 AM |
| Location: |
McAllaster, 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: |
Two trees |
| Description: |
The high plains is noted for its lack of trees, though there are oftne many near creeks, where water is more plentiful. A pair of cottonwoods frame the 4014 as it makes its way through the rolling country near Wallace |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/25/2024 6:18:49 AM |
| Location: |
Wallace, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Through a sag |
| Description: |
Despite its reputation as being pool table flat, western Kansas is more rolling, however gently. The 4014 rolls through a sag near Wallace. US 40 is adjacent, and much less crowded than its farther east counterparts, largely due to the remoteness of the region. Traffic really thinned out west of Oakley as chasers cut off the effort. It would be a lot less stressful all the way to Kit Carson. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/25/2024 6:21:53 AM |
| Location: |
Wallace, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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| Title: |
Bearing down |
| Description: |
A tele shot of the train seems to have it charging ahead purposefully as it approaches Wallace, the fireman, ever vigilant, looking forward. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/25/2024 6:23:59 AM |
| Location: |
Wallace, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Big sky |
| Description: |
One of the things I love about the plains is how the sky seems so expansive. Now that the rain has passed east of us, the sky is becoming that puffy cloud filled blue that is emblematic of the wide open spaces. The 4014 makes its way under the scenic blue dome. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/25/2024 6:28:54 AM |
| Location: |
Wallace, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Opened up |
| Description: |
A wider view now really opens the sky as the 4014 rolls on, seeming to wade through the grass. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/25/2024 6:33:04 AM |
| Location: |
Wallace, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 9625(C44-9W) UP 4014(4-8-8-4) |
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| Title: |
Coming on |
| Description: |
I wasnt able to get to a road that crossed the tracks-not familiar with the territory-but was able to get ahead enough for this dark side shot as the train slowed for Sharon Springs. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/26/2024 6:18:34 AM |
| Location: |
Sharon Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Always a crowd |
| Description: |
As with every stop along the way, there was a sizeable crowd to greet the trains arrival. Here in Sharon Springs, that was true as well-the population of the town is only 657, almost half of Wallace Countys 1400 or so residents. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/26/2024 6:26:28 AM |
| Location: |
Sharon Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Wouldnt be Kansas without one |
| Description: |
The 4014 poses under the United Plains Ag elevator at Sharon Springs as the crowd checks out the train. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/26/2024 6:28:51 AM |
| Location: |
Sharon Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Tied up |
| Description: |
The crew has gone through the procedures to tie the train up here, and it now poses in front of the elevator, ready for tomorrows leg to Denver. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/26/2024 6:32:15 AM |
| Location: |
Sharon Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Yard,Steam,Action |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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| Title: |
Close up |
| Description: |
The 4014 and passenger equipment now at rest at Sharon Springs yard. It will get underway west around 0900 tomorrow, making a spirited run across the Colorado high plains. |
| Photo Date: |
10/20/2024 Upload Date: 12/26/2024 6:34:50 AM |
| Location: |
Sharon Springs, KS |
| Author: |
Tom Beckett |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Steam |
| Locomotives: |
UP 4014(4-8-8-4) UP 9625(C44-9W) |
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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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| 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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