UP Big Boy tour continuance
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Topic: UP Big Boy tour continuance
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: UP Big Boy tour continuance
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2021 at 6:51pm
Looks like the Big Boy X4014 is making another loop this year, and coming thru St Louis which means thru Hermann Too!! Aug 29. |
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Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 8:51am
| Sure would be interesting to see one of those locomotives fired up and working. Have seen a nonworking one on display and they are really big. Very impressive. Bet they made the ground shake when they rolled by. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 9:48am
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We missed it the last time through here. Gonna try again. Do you have any dates? |
Posted By: bauerd44
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 10:17am
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Thanks for posting this Dave. Here is a link to a story about the tour. http://www.thecheyennepost.com/news/union-pacific-big-boy-4014-2021-tour-schedule-announced/article_9b9b94be-cd47-11eb-acb1-f7d4e930481f.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.thecheyennepost.com/news/union-pacific-big-boy-4014-2021-tour-schedule-announced/article_9b9b94be-cd47-11eb-acb1-f7d4e930481f.html Here is a link to the Union Pacific Steam club that will send you updates. http://www.up.com/heritage/steam/club/index.htm" rel="nofollow - http://www.up.com/heritage/steam/club/index.htm Lookijng forward to seeing this monster. Dale ------------- Missouri Allis-Chalmers Club CA Allis, 175 Allis, 185 Allis |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 10:29am
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Our Yesteryear show is Aug 27-29, featuring the 75th anniversary of Gibson tractors, (made in Longmont, 2 miles from the show grounds). One of our members, Austin Barker is on the Big Boy crew, hopefully he will be able to break away to show off some of his tractors, JD's unfortunately.
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Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 3:38pm
Last year Toulon elevator east of Hays. Made the phone book cover. The book doesn’t do the picture justice. At their office they have the whole picture and you can see the steam rolling up the milo pile that you barely see in the right corner. Perfect morning when it came through, cool damp and they said the steam hung all across Hays. I didn’t make it there but have seen hundreds of pictures from that morning. 
------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2021 at 8:43pm
| What is the Engine that is on display in the Henry Ford Museum ? It is supposed to be able to pull a fully loaded train up the hills out east at 70 mph . We were told that they couldn't shovel coal fast enough into it's firebox that they had to equip it with auger feed. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 4:04am
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Lima Allegheny engine. Not quite as large as a Big Boy at 770,000+ pounds but 'noted' as to HP/Tractive effort being more than a Big Boy.
Was also a Chesapeake Engine in 2-8-8-2 and a Yellowstone in 2-8-8-4 built prior to the Big Boy. HOWEVER the Big Boy by American Locomotive works was built with the intention to pull some of the longest highest grades in the US(Rockies) using the oft touted lower btu brown coals of the western states that made less energy for more volume but was plentiful.
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Posted By: Ron Eggen
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 2:26pm
| Thanks D Miller ! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 7:07pm
BTW, the Fire Box on a Big Boy is roughly half again as long as the others noted, just HUGE!! My own Self in X4006 in the St Louis Museum of Transportation.  |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 11:15pm
| 50 years ago, I met and made a friend on an old steam engineer. I loved his tales of running steam trains back before ww2. He ran engines thru the Midwest. Then he hitched a ride out West. He said he never came back to run the "tea pots" they had in the Midwest. He retired running mountain engines. They were far heavier than the prairie engines here. He said they rode like a Cadillac while the prairie engines rode like a ford. He spoke about steam wrecks and retrieving wrecked or broken engines. He told me about 1 that derailed off a bridge taking the tender with it. They were able to recover the 3 crew dead crew members but according to him the engine and tender were still buried in the mud. He had many more stories, now that I've started thinking about them, I'll probably be up 1/2 the night attempting to remember them. I'll miss this exibitation, I was able to see the 3985 in Boone Iowa several years ago. It was impressive too. |
Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2021 at 11:42pm
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The big trestle just west of Boone would be a great place to watch the Big Boy cross. |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2021 at 10:38pm
Boy! for someone that is a truck driver, mechanic, and a harley rider that's rough, scuff, and tuff, you sure are a "pretty boy"!!   ------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
DMiller wrote:Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2021 at 10:58pm
| any one that has a chance to see it try not to miss out , its real neat |