In half an hour, four of us are going to downtown Kansas City to watch the historic steam engine Union Pacific 4014 go by. Listening to the whistle is an important part of it all.

Here's a video of the 4014 crossing the Mississippi River and making its presence known, while a helicopter flutters around like an admiring dragonfly.


over the father of waters

It's going so slowly because the bridge is clearly very old, and the 4014 weighs almost three times as much as a locomotive of today. Going slow takes it easy on the bridge.