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An early Union Pacific locomotive in 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 in Grand Island, Nebraska. 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 museums in towns across Nebraska, including Grand Island, Fairbury, Sidney, Kearney, Lexington, and North Platte. There is no way to be certain, but 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 only 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 crew would then be assigned to another train back to North Platte, with the same or another locomotive.

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