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August 31, 2021

Union Pacific "Big Boy" #4014 visits St. Louis

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.

Since 2019, I've had a couple of "almost" opportunities to see newly-restored "Big Boy" steam locomotive #4014, but they required long trips that just didn't work out due to personal schedule conflicts. I finally got the chance to see it here at home this month during its passage through St. Louis.

My main video camera is still in the shop for repairs, so I had to rely on my old, buggy JVC HM170 camera for this event. Nonetheless, I was blessed to have most of my planned shots between Chester and Gasconade work out. Most notably, I was very thankful to be tipped off to a secret photo shoot at the Arch which only a handful of photographers knew about.

Although I shot primarily video, I did manage two quality stills during the Arch shoot: