Union Pacific Big Boy 4014

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   My memory is not great, but I thought there was a recent thread on here about Big Boy, but I can't find it.
I haven't watched all of it, but Jay Leno has a 1 hour you-tube video when it was in Council Bluffs, IA.  The video is very detailed and involves discussion with the UP leader that resurrected it out of a park in LA-towed it to Cheyenne, stripped it down and put it back together.  Believe it not, they are still training people to run this thing.  Deep pockets and no one crawling on you about expenses.  I'm sure it happens but behind closed doors.  Enjoy if you're so inclined.

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Dennis J OPKs Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Silver Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Overland Park, Points: 433	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dennis J OPKs Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Posted: 23 Sep 2024 at 9:16pm
	My memory is not great, but I thought there was a recent thread on here about Big Boy, but I can't find it. I haven't watched all of it, but Jay Leno has a 1 hour you-tube video when it was in Council Bluffs, IA. The video is very detailed and involves discussion with the UP leader that resurrected it out of a park in LA-towed it to Cheyenne, stripped it down and put it back together. Believe it not, they are still training people to run this thing. Deep pockets and no one crawling on you about expenses. I'm sure it happens but behind closed doors. Enjoy if you're so inclined.

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DMiller Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Hermann, Mo Points: 31053	Post Options Post Reply Quote DMiller Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 4:29am
	UP has a lengthy story line with vids and photos on the rebuild, millions in wages and custom made pieces as these old behemoths in their last years were ignored as to heavy maintenance, ran them for the trophies. The ones that escaped the scrappers ended up as park displays to be tormented and damaged further as we have one the 2017 here at the Museum of Transportation St Louis County. The Big Boys were a upgrade of the Challenger 4/6/6/4 engines and built to run on garbage lignite coal that was prolific in WY, not the hard high BTU eastern coals. The UP still has a Challenger but is not running and another Am Loco Steamer they do still run as well. And they do still earn their keep on occasion as freight draggers.

HudCo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Location: Plymouth Utah Points: 3536	Post Options Post Reply Quote HudCo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 9:52am
	seen the big boy this summer agian come past us i would sure like to see it pulling a big load , but that will not happen agian

bigal121892 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 05 Jan 2010 Location: Nebraska Points: 803	Post Options Post Reply Quote bigal121892 Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 6:15pm
	His a video from last year, the Big Boy pushing a stuck freight at Blair NE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vLWBP-ehOo

Dennis J OPKs Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Silver Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Overland Park, Points: 433	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dennis J OPKs Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 2024 at 7:26pm
	I have made it only about halfway through the Leno video. It was explained that the drive train is really what could be 2 locomotive drive trains hooked together. This one was converted to oil, I don't know if any others were or not.

DaveKamp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Apr 2010 Location: LeClaire, Ia Points: 5754	Post Options Post Reply Quote DaveKamp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Oct 2024 at 9:16am
	The Big Boys were originally designed with coal-burning fireboxes. 4014 was fitted with an oil-feeder experiment during WW2, but they found that the firebox arrangement was not as efficient at distributing the fire heat down the tubes with that design, so they switched it back to coal. From what I've read, the basic problem was that the oil burner array would consume all the available oxygen in some areas, starving the others, and preventing the heat from equalizing... or something to that effect. After the war, they revisited the experiment, and made some changes, which resulted in better thermal distribution. During 4007's restoration, they fitted it back up with oil burners. I don't know if they were able to correct the heat distribution situation, but going to oil-feed was pretty much a necessity in order to maintain it as a main-line operational piece of history.
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john64 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Bronze Level Joined: 03 Mar 2024 Location: Niwot Colo Points: 21	Post Options Post Reply Quote john64 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 Oct 2024 at 1:50pm
	A friend of mine, Austin Barker is the fireman in the Jay Leno video, I didn't realize it had come out already. Austin is a young man from my area of Colorado who collects those green tractors but I still like him. He runs the families Case steam tractors when he isn't on the rails. He was here for our Yesteryear Farm Show in August but left a couple days later for the trip, won't be home until the end of the month so can't run his cousins steam tractor at our pumpkin farm this year.