Photo ID: 113861 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 14 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific I do not claim to know much about how steam locomotives work, but when UP 4014 starts pulling, it frequently lets a little steam free from the pistons, making for a cool scene. such is the case here at Pine Bluffs, WY as the train starts up to continue east. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113860 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After close to a 90 minute stop on Main 2 in Pine Bluffs, WY, UP 4014 and train are steaming up and starting to roll, ready to continue the first leg of the journey east to the small yard in Sidney, NE. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113859 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific About 15 minutes prior to departing Pine Bluffs, the steam team standby as a westbound UP train rolls by at 30 MPH on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113858 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Not too long prior to departure from Pine Bluffs, the steam team has replaced the Wyoming flag with the Nebraska flag on the front of Big Boy. This is one of the super classy things UP does, flying the flag of whatever state the Big Boy is (primarily) running in after a stop. Pine Bluffs, WY sits on the border with Nebraska, so in less than a mile, the train will be in Nebraska. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113857 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The UP steam team works to replace a pipe that connects to the main air reservoir after replacing a gasket that blew. Once the pipe is reinstalled, a few more standard maintenance tasks will take place prior to departing eastbound. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113856 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 16 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After blowing a gasket during its maintenance stop at Pine Bluffs, WY, the steam team took out the pipe with the defective gasket and replaced the gasket in the tool car. A member of the team now has the repair section of pipe, and is bringing it back to the head end of the Big Boy. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113855 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 18 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP's steam chief Ed Dickens and several members of the steam team are applying water to an air pipe on the front of the Big Boy. During the maintenance stop, a gasket blew on the main reservoir. The team is going to have to remove the pipe and replace the gasket. In order to remove the defective piece, it needs to be cooled down. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113854 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific While UP 4014 is stopped on Main 2 for its maintenance stop, a westbound local with a single SD40-2 and nine covered hoppers approaches from the east on Main 1 in Pine Bluffs, WY. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 113853 Date Shot Photo By Monday, May 25, 2026 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Pine Bluffs Pine Bluffs, WY 17 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 4014 has come to a stop on Main 2 in Pine Bluffs, WY so some standard maintenance can be done. The Big Boy stops every 50-75 miles when out on excursions to ensure everything is greased up and running as it should be. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108911 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 451 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After a full day of chasing UP's hospital train east, I caught this eastbound autorack train in the final few minutes of sunlight just east of Pine Bluffs. Quite a nice ending to a very nice day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108910 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 455 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Chicago North Western A final look at the old CNW F7A #401 as it rolls east on the hospital train toward its new home in Silvas, IL. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108909 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 519 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific As the sun got closer and closer to the western horizon, the crowd following UP's hospital train definitely thinned out a bit. Here, you can see about ten or so cars stopped on the shoulders of the Lincoln Highway, parallel to a stopped UP 5716 and train. They got stopped at a red signal, but are just about to get a clear (green) signal to continue east. This would be as far east as I was able to chase the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108908 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 529 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The UP hospital train has come to (yet another) stop due to a red signal ahead. The dispatcher informed the train that they'd be stopped temporarily to allow an eastbound to run around on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108907 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 477 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific This was an incredibly lucky catch for the day! A decade ago, patched Espee AC4400CWs were still fairly common. However, over the years, UP has managed to repaint all but three of these units in to full UP yellow. I just happened to coincidentally come across this scarlet and gray unit, serving as a mid-train DPU on an eastbound grain train. This unit was originally SP 264. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108906 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 434 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After several hours of being stuck behind a UP hospital train, which is restricted to 20 MPH, the Sidney Sub dispatcher was finally able to cross this grain train over to Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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