| Somehow, someway, we mistakenly planned this trip around the Cheyenne Frontier Days. But in reality, this was no mistake in my perspective. Every year, UP runs a steam excursion with their Class FEF-3 "484 Northern" Locomotive No. 844. Currently, this is UPs only active steam locomotive in their program. Naturally, with a running steam locomotive right around the block from us, there was no way I was going to not get out and see it for myself. I wanted to see the train at speed, so we drove a couple miles south into Colorado and set up shop in the tiny community of Carr. The train was slated to leave Denver around 9:00 AM MDT but of course it ended up being a little later than that. I was the only rail nut set up at that crossing for the longest time, but eventually some other people began showing, and then finally, once the train was into view, the whole brigade came and shot it with me. It was so great to finally see a steam locomotive moving at such a quick clip again! |