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HudCo 
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Posted: 06 May 2019 at 10:53pm |
seen the bigboy and challanger going down the rails this going to evanston wyoming got a few pics at the rail yard ,    what an awsome peice of machinery
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JohnCO
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Posted: 06 May 2019 at 11:10pm |
Heading to the site of where the golden spike was driven, then on a nationwide tour. Converted to burn oil and hauls enough water for around 400 miles. A few cars behind the engines and tenders is a complete machine shop, and a crew car for the operators. A friend of mine is on the crew and has been involved in the rebuilding since they started to get it ready to take to Cheyenne from the LA county Fair Grounds, where it had been on display for years.
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Posted: 06 May 2019 at 11:26pm |
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Hes on me bucket list to see.
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 2:09am |
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empressive...ain't it?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 6:13am |
makes me wonder just HOW did they cast and turn them big drivers !! as well as all the other heavy, huge cast parts, way back when...... runs on OIL ?? sniff,sniff......gotta be a LOT of coal available , waa.....
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 6:19am |
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Yes they converted the old boiler to fuel oil, easier to get on the long run, just run a tanker up and refill. Smokes less, no ashes and less chance of rail tie fires.
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 6:51am |
 jaybmiller wrote:
makes me wonder just HOW did they cast and turn them big drivers !! as well as all the other heavy, huge cast parts, way back when...... runs on OIL ?? sniff,sniff......gotta be a LOT of coal available , waa.....
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Been BIG machines around longer than you think. Little slow compared to those of today, but lots of big stuff created "back when".
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 7:24am |
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back when men were men and america was king.
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HudCo
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 9:55am |
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there are no rails going to the golden spike monument there are about a mile of rail out there, i live about thirty five miles away from the monument. the two locomotives will be at ogden union station until sunday morning then head back to cheyenne i took my parents out to the golden spike monument about a month ago and walked arround the two locomotive s and displays , steam show in the end of december is allways neat that they have out there
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 6:48pm |
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them two trains will do a hundred miles per hour i have been told, both have what looks like a steel tire pressed on a big cast wheel on the drivers there is more on upsteam.com
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Posted: 07 May 2019 at 7:00pm |
Max speed for the Big Boy was listed at 80mph, tonnage and turns did not work out well Hard to keep rails down with 600 tons grinding on them. 1,250,000 pounds with full load of fuel and water, 6290 hp, makes Max HP at 10 mph Peak HP to tractive effort at 35mph Just MASSIVE. How do I know this, I got to sit in the cab of 4006 at St Louis Museum of Transport https://transportmuseumassociation.org/big-boy-steam-locomotive/ Took a week to lose the smile, felt like a Kid!! 
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Posted: 08 May 2019 at 1:14pm |
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A little side note. Another friend, a retired railroad enthusiast, went out to California with the crew to act as the PR/information person. Unfortunately, he passed away while there so they put the urn of his ashes in the cab on the boiler and brought him home. He was really looking forward to riding it once it was rebuilt but his sisters insisted he be buried after they got back to Cheyenne. I suspect Ed was on the train in sprite at least!
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Posted: 08 May 2019 at 7:06pm |
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WOW!! super trains! -- Glad you got to be there!
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Posted: 09 May 2019 at 3:01pm |
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Posted: 10 May 2019 at 10:46pm |
Here's some more on the Big Boy;
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