10th July 2019

The Union Station museum is home to some classic western railroading motive power. Probably the most impressive locomotive here is this Union Pacific "Big Blow" Gas Turbine, no. 26. Beautifully restored cosmetically it did seem to be going through a repaint at the time of the visit. I cannot imagine that this locomotive would ever be restored back to working order, but the same was probably said once about the "Big Boy", so who knows what may happen in the future. It would be an amazing sight, and sound, to see this working again.