Union Pacific to Restore one of their "Big Boys"

[Tesla9]

http://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/steam/locomotives/4014.shtml

I always dreamed of going to see one of these beasts at a museum To see one of these run was always a dream of mine, and now it may actually happen! 
Now if we could throw some AAA on it and give it a perk or two....

[rpm]

Very cool, a 4-8-8-4 articulated! I love old steam engines and watch that stuff on RFD-TV all the time. There was one that went down the tracks behind my place a couple years ago. I didn't know anything about it and just happened to be out in the field when it went by. I thought I was having an aneurism.

[Nath[BDP]]

1,000,000 Aspergers just jizzed their pants

[uptown]

They're nice to look at but I'm glad they don't make em like that anymore.   Them there are a locomotive mechanic's nightmare! 

[Meatwad]

600 ton locomotive  

Hope they dont run it on a siding with 100lb rail

[John Galt]

I got to see one of them sitting in a park in Cheyenne WY. After standing next to one I would have to say Big Boy is a bit of an understatment. It was also nice showing my GF's Dad photos of it, since he used to watch them run out of the AZ copper mines when he was a boy.

[flight17]

It's about time!

[Slash27]

Very cool, a 4-8-8-4 articulated! I love old steam engines and watch that stuff on RFD-TV all the time. There was one that went down the tracks behind my place a couple years ago. I didn't know anything about it and just happened to be out in the field when it went by. I thought I was having an aneurism.

I caught one of UP's big steam locos in Denton last October. I forget the name of it but it was a monster and way to cool to put in to words.

[RngFndr]

One of my other hobbies is model railroad.. Wife and I have built a fairly nice HO layout
in the Attic, (she likes it too).. As we get older, I think that is going to take up more of our time..

I have a Riverossi HO scale 4-8-8-4 Bigboy.. Union Pacific, #4015.. Wife gave it to me for
Christmas some yrs ago.. Even tho it is articulated, still requires very wide radius turns, so
it only runs on the mainline and sidings laid out special for it.. Same problem it had in reality..
I've had 100+ cars on it, pulls em easy.. Even 3 diesels don't have the same tractive power..
(It's the weight on the rails that gives it the edge)

I have a bunch of Locos, and the Bigboy is Awesome without a doubt, but my Favorite
is 4-8-4 Northern.. Not as much pure pulling power, but a lot faster and far more versatile..

Great vids on Youtube of the Steam Giants.. Magnificent machines!
Bout time they restored the Biggest baddest one of all!

Cool, thanks for posting..

[Zoney]

One of my other hobbies is model railroad.. Wife and I have built a fairly nice HO layout
in the Attic, (she likes it too).. As we get older, I think that is going to take up more of our time..

I have a Riverossi HO scale 4-8-8-4 Bigboy.. Union Pacific, #4015.. Wife gave it to me for
Christmas some yrs ago.. Even tho it is articulated, still requires very wide radius turns, so
it only runs on the mainline and sidings laid out special for it.. Same problem it had in reality..
I've had 100+ cars on it, pulls em easy.. Even 3 diesels don't have the same tractive power..
(It's the weight on the rails that gives it the edge)

I have a bunch of Locos, and the Bigboy is Awesome without a doubt, but my Favorite
is 4-8-4 Northern.. Not as much pure pulling power, but a lot faster and far more versatile..

Great vids on Youtube of the Steam Giants.. Magnificent machines!
Bout time they restored the Biggest baddest one of all!

Cool, thanks for posting..

How about a picture?

[MiloMorai]

Designed and built without using computers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1txJ6u2b3c

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Crazy amount of thick black smoke 

[MiloMorai]

The Mole - 1940's Train Sabotage Experiments by US Military

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cipyPJJdnM

WW1 Narrow gauge train lines in France - World War One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3s01i3aa7w

[RngFndr]

How about a picture?

Heck just a couple yrs ago, I would have splattered the BB with pics..
But I don't do pic hosting sites, not worth the effort anymore..
LOL, I have some pics that have made it to places where I never put them..
So for me, that was the end of that..

Dumped my Scroogletube vids too..

[Hajo]

During the 50s' Rail Roads were still using some steam locomotives......used in steel plants also.  They were an incredible cacophony of sight and sound.

One could hear them coming miles away.....and saw the smoke long before you saw the locomotive.  It wasn't unheard of for some passenger steam locomotives

to travel at over 100 mph.