Big Boy Visit

Every year of two Union Pacific sends out the last of their BIG steam locomotives on a good will tour of the mid-west.  They call this locomotive The Big Boy it is 132 feet long and weighs in at 1.2 million pounds (yes million).  For me The Big Boy is always a treat to see, hear, and feel.

I traveled out to Calvert Texas to see it passing through small town Texas.  I got there to find a lot of people had the same idea so it limited some of my photography.  Even with a lot of people at this location I was still able to get up close as it passed through.  Some have questioned my sanity as I was close, maybe too close, but it was a thrill to feel it as it passed.