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This month was scheduled to be a a easy one for me, with two consecutive weekends off, which has not occurred on my calendar since April 2025! If you know me, that plan did not work out as I found a bit of history was traveling in Illinois and I had to get some images captured. Just over 36 hours one weekend, I drove nearly 500 miles without leaving the state of Illinois to capture images of a historic steam locomotive heading south to St. Louis. Wish I could say that everything I tried with my photography gear worked out but I learned a few things with my failures; that's always an important lesson.
Going to take you back to last fall with our first image, a scene from Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. The different colors of water and bacteria in the terraces makes the area a wonderful location for photographers. If you look closely, you will find trees attempting to grow in the water of the upper terrace. Camera Data: 135mm 1/13 sec F18 ISO100
The second image is a very unique item, it's the Union Pacific Big Boy No.4014. This engine is the largest steam locomotive operating in the world, it was traveling across the country for the 250th anniversary of our independence. Some interesting facts from the Union Pacific website: Twenty-five Big Boys were commissioned exclusively for Union Pacific Railroad, the first of which was delivered in 1941. These massive locomotives were built to haul heavy equipment in support of the war effort, normally operating between Ogden, Utah, and Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Big Boys are 133 feet long and weigh 1.2 million pounds. Due to their great length, the frames of the Big Boys are “hinged,” or articulated, to allow them to negotiate curves. They have a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, which means they have four wheels on the leading set of “pilot” wheels to guide the engine; eight drivers on the first engine; another set of eight drivers on the second engine; and four wheels trailing that support the rear of the locomotive. No. 4014 was retired in Dec. 1961 after traveling 1,031,205 miles. Union Pacific reacquired it from the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, California, in 2013 and relocated it back to Cheyenne, Wyoming, for a multi-year restoration. It returned to service in May 2019 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's Completion. The seven other remaining Big Boys are on public display in St. Louis, Missouri; Dallas, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Camera Data: 24mm 1/400 sec F16 ISO400
Here's a link to download the appropriate version of this month's image for your desktop, one for standard screens and one for wide-screens, along with a Mobile Phone Image. For desktop computers or tablets, open the required version for your device, right-click on the image or right-click on the text for the format you need and select Save As, save to a location on your device and change the background as needed for your OS.
For Mobile devices, most mobile phones require a long press and a menu pop-up will be displayed. Click save then follow the steps for your operating system to set it as your background image.
If anyone has problems or questions with their mobile device, let me know and I will try to assist.
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