In late March to late April of this year, Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 along with Abraham Lincoln Unit 1616 & UP's own locomotive 1776 was operating a re-trace of the July 2024 route from Cheyenne Wyoming to Roseville California & return. Locations for the eastbound return trip in April of '26 are: Sacramento California, Lincoln, Oroville with Western Pacific 0-6-0 number 164 on display as sister engine 165 is at the WP Railroad Museum, Brock Siding, Oroville Dam, North Fork Bridge at Tunnel 8, East Pulga with a modified Caterpillar Excavator, Rock Creek Trestle, Tobin, the Honeymoon Tunnels, Rich Bar, Keddie Wye, Williams Loop, Spring Garden, Clio Trestle as night falls, Portola with the equipment for the WP Railroad Museum in the background, Flanigan Nevada, Sand Pass Siding, Gerlach, Weso, Palisade Canyon, Elko, Deeth, Wells, Moor, Loray Utah, Lakeside with the Great Salt Lake, Ogden Union Station with 4-8-4 number 833 on display as well as stock footage from Return of the Big Boy with 4-4-0 locomotives 60 (the Jupiter) & 119, Weber Canyon, Echo Canyon, Castle Rock, Wasatch, Evanston Wyoming, Leroy, Granger, Peru Hill at Bryan, Green River Bridge & Yard, Rock Springs, Thayer Junction, Point of Rocks, Tipton, Wamsutter, The Continental Divide at Creston, Riner, Rawlins, Hanna, Medicine Bow, Milepost 601 with an unusual work train meeting the steam special, Bosler, Hermosa Tunnel on Sherman Hill, Granite, & ends at Cheyenne with a trio of rebuilt & renumbered SD40-2s. Aside from the angles of Aaron Bentsein with informative narration, there are also some footages of 4014 that was captured by Christian Schultz. Will there ever be some more future length DVDs & Blu-Rays on 4014's Eastern half of the celebrating 250 years of America tour that includes making a month long visit in Pennsylvania with silent surviving engine 4012 in Scranton, side-by-side races with Reading T1 2102 on the Reading & Northern, & rumbling through Altoona's mighty Horseshoe Curve by what's left of today's producers at this point? Who knows.

As part of the 250 celebration of our country, Union Pacific has sent Big Boy 4014 for a Coast to Coast tour. There are scenic locations that are worth visiting such as Feather River Canyon in California and the Palisade Canyon in Nevada. I’m not a fond of drone coverage but there were few replays of the run-by on ground level as the 4014 whistles by. Stay tuned for the East Coast tour when it comes out on video in the future.