[SteveR]

The Union Pacific No. 844. It was the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific and is one of the last surviving and still operational original steam locomotives in the world. It doesn't run all that much, but I heard it was passing through so I went down to the station this morning to watch it leave at 8am.


































It was pretty impressive. It stands nearly twenty feet tall, and the engine and tender alone weigh nearly one million pounds. I can't even imagine how amazing it must have been in the '20's, '30's, '40's, and '50's to see them all lined up at the train station.