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Union Pacific #437 locomotive in Grand Island, Nebraska

This Union Pacific Consolidaton 2-8-0 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the year 1900. (2-8-0 refers to 2 leading wheels, 8 drive wheels, and 0 trailing wheels) It is on display at the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska, which we visited in May of 2026. These workhorses of the early 20th century were the backbone of freight service across the Great Plains. As they were retired, many were donated to towns across Nebraska, including Grand Island, Fairbury, Sidney, Kearney, Lexington, and North Platte. The engineer would sit on the right, and the fireman on the left. The likelihood that John Calvin Strahorn operated this exact locomotive on multiple occasions during the over two decades he and Sarah lived in North Platte is inescapable, because crews operating locomotives based in North Platte would typically travel west to Sidney or east to Grand Island, where their locomotives would be serviced at a roundhouse and refilled with coal and water. The locomotives would then pull a train back to North Platte, with the same or another crew.

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