Tag: Union Pacific

  • Big Tea Kettle, Part 2

    Big Tea Kettle, Part 2

    After chasing the Union Pacific steam train from Neodesha to Paola on Sunday, November 17, I followed that up by catching the train twice more on Tuesday, November 19, at Linwood and Newman.

  • Big Tea Kettle

    Big Tea Kettle

    To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Golden Spike, the Union Pacific Railroad restored on of their biggest locomotives, “Big Boy” 4014. During 2019, they have been touring as much of the UP system as possible. On November 17, I followed 4014 from Neodesha to Paola.

  • Topeka Sub Antics

    Topeka Sub Antics

    I woke up on a Sunday Morning and got wind that BNSF was running eastbound trains through Lawrence on the Topeka Sub.

  • Labor Day weekend on the Marcelline Sub

    Labor Day weekend on the Marcelline Sub

    Usually, Labor Day weekend means that I’m out doing something train related. I decided this year to head out to Camden, Missouri on the Marcelline Sub. I arrived a little before 10:00 and found that I wasn’t alone – there was another car, and two railfans wearing day-glo orange vests already there waiting on the…

  • Train photos from today

    Train photos from today

    Two sets of photos from the first week of 2017.

  • January, 1996

    January 1996

    My photos from January of 1996.

  • September 1995, Part 2

    September 1995, Part 2

    More photos from September of 1995

  • Got nothing better to do…

    Got nothing better to do…

    With the foot injury immobilizing me for a while, I pretty much have all my negatives from early ’95 rescanned. Now saved to flickr are some previously unreleased goodies 🙂

  • First Sunday of 2016

    First Sunday of 2016

    [All this happened before I broke my foot] The first Sunday of the month usually means cleaning the BNSF station in Lawrence. But first, I needed to get outside and catch some trains. Because of my ‘appointment,’ I elected to stay close to town and went with the UP Kansas Sub.

  • Back to when it all began…

    Back to when it all began…

    I’ve been doing this picture-taking thing for 20 years now. To close out this 20th year, I pulled out my old negative folder and scanned several negatives from that first year.