Photos: Historic journey

Published: Monday, April 13 2009 12:00 a.m. MDT

Boilermaker Ed Smith stands atop the tender car of Historic Steam Train No. 844 after it pulled into Union Station in Ogden on Sunday. It had traveled 176 miles from Green River, Wyo.

Michael Brandy, Deseret News

Engineer Tom Stone shows his grandson, Colby Stone, 3, Historic Steam Train No. 844 at Union Station in Ogden on Sunday after Tom Stone and crew drove the train 176 miles from Green River, Wyo. In another photo Kaitlyn Jones, 5, holds her head and her brother Kendall, 7, snaps photos as the train pulls into the Ogden station. The last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific stopped in Ogden as part of the Western Heritage Tour, in which the train is steaming through cities that witnessed the birth of the railroad.

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