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Union Pacific RR to restore Big Boy #4014, biggest steam loco ever built. It's the RR equivalent of putting a man on the moon.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nati ... 5582.story

4014's slightly older brother at Steamtown

YES!!! Thanks for the link. /trainnerd

Nice pics!

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I'm ahead of the Union Pacific! I have three big boys running on my railroad...



Have a good one.. Don S..

Remember, safety first around trains.

Watch trains online.

http://www.railstream.org/

I would SO love an O gauge Big boy. I just wish they weren't so darned expensive!


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They have one of those at the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver. Massive. I can stare at it for hour, trying to get my head around how they engineered it, built it, and maintained it.

http://www.forneymuseum.org/Featured_Exhibit.html

I'm glad to see Union Pacific do these kind of restorations. I've seen thier Challenger a couple of times and it's awesome. Never thought I would get the chance to see the Big Boy in action. As soon as the restoration is done I'm packing the grankids in the truck and taking a trip to see it.

I am happy for those UP enthusiasts.
There has been a lot of people wanting to see a big boy roam the rails.

However, being a member of the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, I am most proud of our locomotive, the Nickel Plate Road 765
This weekend we had our annual open house.
Here is a very short video of it moving today (I did not take this video)


Here is a video I took last year:

That's a sweet locomotive Bryan. I got all up and personal with it and the engineer one day a long time ago.

I had pulled into a parking lot to crash in the middle of the night while out running around. I was awaken by the train. It was in Noblesville, IN or somewhere around there. Nice rail yard with treasures in it as well.

We have a yard a mile or so from the house here. When I went by the other day they had a new set of Pullman cars I've not seen before.