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Posted: 4/29/2019 9:08:49 PM EDT
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This one from the cab is better.
Rode the cab of 844 with Ed Dickens (the guy blowing the whistle like a maestro) a few years back before he became head of UP's steam program. He hasn't lost his touch. He can play those chime whistles like a fine instrument: Big Boy whistle from the cab |
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Posted: 4/29/2019 9:29:40 PM EDT
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Coolest thing I’ve seen today.
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Posted: 4/29/2019 11:09:09 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/30/2019 2:18:20 AM EDT
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Foamer thread. Still neat though, should make leftists cry seeing another rolling volcano on rails. That's good. |
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Posted: 4/30/2019 6:37:36 AM EDT
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I seen it when they moved it to Cheyenne a few years ago
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/UP_4014_Big_Boy/5-1621749/? |
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Posted: 4/30/2019 6:40:10 AM EDT
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from the cab after the cobwebs were steamed out. someone sent me this
it's all in the wrist. I'll be in Ogden that day.  4014WHISTLE |
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Posted: 4/30/2019 9:11:10 AM EDT
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TOO BAD THEY CONVERTED HER FROM COAL TO OIL DURING THE RESTORATION. SHE USED TO BURN BIG COAL, NOT NUT COAL. 
Love those old locomotives! https://www.railpictures.net/images/d2/1/5/5/6155.1470838591.jpg |
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Posted: 5/3/2019 6:39:02 AM EDT
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one of many videos out last night of it's first time on the rails in almost 60 years. first test run..
. they are using the Diesel for putting a load on the 4014 using dynamic braking and if the 4014 needs a ride home it will help with that..  Big Boy Train |
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Posted: 5/3/2019 9:05:58 AM EDT
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one of many videos out last night of it's first time on the rails in almost 60 years. first test run.. . they are using the Diesel for putting a load on the 4014 using dynamic braking and if the 4014 needs a ride home it will help with that..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpaKHiyvRo |
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Posted: 5/3/2019 9:11:03 AM EDT
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Anyone know how they are watering her? Local fire departments along the way lending a hydrant and hose?
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Posted: 5/3/2019 9:13:53 AM EDT
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I am glad to see people are taking care of these historical trains, and giving them new life.
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Posted: 5/3/2019 1:22:39 PM EDT
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More test run goodness!
 First Look! Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 Test Run in Cheyenne, WY |
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Posted: 5/3/2019 2:16:44 PM EDT
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Anyone know how they are watering her? Local fire departments along the way lending a hydrant and hose? |
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Posted: 5/3/2019 2:22:06 PM EDT
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The Big Boy holds 24000 gallons of water and used to hold 56000 lbs of coal. I don't know how much diesel.
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Posted: 5/3/2019 4:23:12 PM EDT
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That was a little disappointing. Watched both videos (over half an hour) and the engine didn't move a foot. All it did was sit there and make a lot of noise and let out lot of steam.
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Posted: 5/3/2019 4:46:18 PM EDT
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Any of you folks up this way want to follow it for a while, I'd say the best spot for doing that is out on HWY-30 outside of Laramie between Laramie and Rock River. Then certain spots between Rock River and Medicine Bow. Medicine Bow to Hanna will be further from the tracks. You can catch it going under some overpasses out near Hanna. But after that you'll be on interstate roads and not be able to legally stop to take video and pics.
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Posted: 5/3/2019 8:17:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/3/2019 11:57:39 PM EDT
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 Worlds largest steam locomotive is back! Big Boy 4014 hits the main line |
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Posted: 5/4/2019 12:53:35 AM EDT
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Whistle was completely underwhelming. I hope it was the shitty camcorder.
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Posted: 5/4/2019 7:18:35 AM EDT
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 UP 844 Assists a Stalled 11,620 Ton Freight Train!!! |
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Posted: 5/5/2019 3:41:56 AM EDT
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 The legendary Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 steam engine is running free along with UP 844! |
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Posted: 5/5/2019 4:21:44 AM EDT
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Yesterday.
 Big Boy 4014 & The Living Legend 844 Double Heading Harriman Wyoming 4K Wheel Slip Steam Engine |
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Posted: 5/5/2019 4:52:26 AM EDT
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844 came thru several years ago. I chased it up to nowata and got a few good photos. I hope the 4014 comes thru sometime when its ready.
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Posted: 5/5/2019 11:21:25 PM EDT
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Union Pacific turbines running with the Big Boy.
 See Mighty Union Pacific Turbines Battle Up Sherman Hill! |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:17:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2019 10:50:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2019 10:59:31 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:38:36 AM EDT
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Hell yes, it gave me goose bumps when I heard it fixed a the end.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 11:45:18 AM EDT
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 2019 Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 The Great Race to Ogden 2nd Day Compilation |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:25:51 PM EDT
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It's a shame they don't trust it enough to run it without the diesel auxilary.
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Posted: 5/6/2019 1:27:28 PM EDT
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It's a shame they don't trust it enough to run it without the diesel auxilary. But yeah, it's newly restored and trying to make a trip down the rails for a few hundred miles that would clog up train traffic if it got stopped, seems pretty prudent to me. |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 7:19:50 PM EDT
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 UP Big Boy #4014 and UP #844 Doubleheader Incredible Shots! |
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Posted: 5/6/2019 8:23:32 PM EDT
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Not a train guy by any means but I happened to be heading to work right around the time the train left Green River so I watched it by the side of the tracks go by. There is something about pure, raw, old school machinery that gives you goosebumps. Its too bad that train horns don't sound like that anymore, Big Boy had a more hallow, low pitch sound. Also pretty cool to see it going down the main line trailing steam for a couple hundred yards.
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Posted: 5/7/2019 12:40:37 AM EDT
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 Bringing the Big Boy Back to Life |
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Posted: 5/7/2019 4:22:49 AM EDT
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Some of the pics I took...
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Posted: 5/7/2019 1:56:31 PM EDT
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Has anyone heard any personal accounts from the train crew? How is the overhaul holding up? After all, no one has rebuilt a 4-8-8-4 in what, 60yrs? Expected vs. realized fuel consumption?
All steam engines have a 'soul.' They talk to their train crew in different ways. I wonder what Big Boy is sayin' to her engineer? |
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Posted: 5/7/2019 2:25:06 PM EDT
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I'm not a foamer or even a train guy, but I recall back about 25 years ago when I was working at a small plant in Leeds, Al. when an old steam train came by.
One of the guys at work knew about and calling us outside to check it. According to him it was some old revived steamer that occasionally takes passengers on a run out of Chattanooga. Hearing and seeing that old beast was pumping a puffing as it drug old classic Pullman cars was a sight. It was like an leftist envrionmentalist's worst nightmare on rails....a bold bird finger, jutting up from the graves of long passed industrialist's graves. I will not deny that it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling as it passed puking it's grey smoke. Guess I'm a budding foamer. 
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Posted: 5/10/2019 2:11:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/13/2019 8:06:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/13/2019 9:18:06 AM EDT
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That's providing the load, run the diesel with the brakes on. But yeah, it's newly restored and trying to make a trip down the rails for a few hundred miles that would clog up train traffic if it got stopped, seems pretty prudent to me. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's a shame they don't trust it enough to run it without the diesel auxilary. But yeah, it's newly restored and trying to make a trip down the rails for a few hundred miles that would clog up train traffic if it got stopped, seems pretty prudent to me. It is most likely in the consist as a backup in the event of the failure of the steam locomotives, to provide dynamic braking, modern communication equipment and to be the primary locomotive if there are any significant tunnels on the route. |
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Posted: 5/13/2019 9:45:31 AM EDT
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That’s very cool!
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Posted: 5/13/2019 8:25:31 PM EDT
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I'm not a foamer or even a train guy, but I recall back about 25 years ago when I was working at a small plant in Leeds, Al. when an old steam train came by... It was like an leftist envrionmentalist's worst nightmare on rails....a bold bird finger, jutting up from the graves of long passed industrialist's graves. I will not deny that it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling as it passed puking it's grey smoke. Guess I'm a budding foamer. |
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Posted: 5/13/2019 8:49:00 PM EDT
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I'm not a foamer or even a train guy, but I recall back about 25 years ago when I was working at a small plant in Leeds, Al. when an old steam train came by... It was like an leftist envrionmentalist's worst nightmare on rails....a bold bird finger, jutting up from the graves of long passed industrialist's graves. I will not deny that it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling as it passed puking it's grey smoke. Guess I'm a budding foamer. |
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Posted: 5/13/2019 9:01:26 PM EDT
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I'm not a foamer or even a train guy, but I recall back about 25 years ago when I was working at a small plant in Leeds, Al. when an old steam train came by... It was like an leftist envrionmentalist's worst nightmare on rails....a bold bird finger, jutting up from the graves of long passed industrialist's graves. I will not deny that it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling as it passed puking it's grey smoke. Guess I'm a budding foamer. |
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Posted: 5/13/2019 9:05:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryGreat vid Thanks! Gotta go mop up the puddle.
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Posted: 5/13/2019 10:22:14 PM EDT
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A friend of mine saw it in Green River, WY.
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Posted: 5/13/2019 10:23:57 PM EDT
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I heard its not coming down to Southern, Ca until 2023. Will be at Pomona, CA for some big event in 2023.
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Posted: 5/13/2019 10:28:48 PM EDT
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Union Pacific turbines running with the Big Boy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spngeetQfRI |
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Posted: 5/13/2019 10:34:04 PM EDT
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