Awesome Steam.

Arizona will celebrate its statehood 2012 and as kick-off Union Pacific is using its historic steam locomotive. It's traveling through the Southwest including New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and California with several stops along the way one of it in Tempe.

Check out some more pictures of this fire breathing giant in my gallery here. You can learn more about the 844 steam locomotive, which was delivered in 1944, on the Union Pacific site.