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nella(Pa) 
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 Topic: The Largest Steam Locomotive on Earth!
Posted: 19 Jun 2022 at 7:52am |
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Morpar55
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Posted: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:30am |
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Should have put largest OPERATING steam locomotive on earth. Many debates over the years as to which one steamer is biggest. In many aspects the C&O had a larger steam locomotive. There is still one on display at the Ford museum in Dearborn, and the last I heard it could be operational basically with a boiler inspection and filling the tender with coal and water. Still, the Big Boy is one impressive beast!
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Posted: 19 Jun 2022 at 11:49am |
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i have seen both of them the 844 challanger several times up close and going by at top speed i went out to evenston and seen them on the day of that video i first went along the tracks about thirty miles east of evantson there was me and one other guy he made a drone video of it for about 5 miles coming out of the tunnel and going past us . that loccomotive makes me all tingly
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 19 Jun 2022 at 1:19pm |
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The wife and I went out to where we grew up and saw it. I got good video and pics. Was an incredible machine.
One hot son of a gun if you’re close to it.
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Posted: 19 Jun 2022 at 2:41pm |
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In 2019, my wife and I got to ride on a train pulled by the 4014. The UP did a really nice job of restoring the old passenger cars to their original luxury.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2022 at 1:03am |
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I have an N scale replica of that engine It was a great big beast that's for sure.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 12:46am |
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the big boy has traveled thru our town several times...I looked it up on line, says its: 132 ft long with the tender, weights 1.2 million lbs, has a 2-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, drive wheels are 68 inches inside diameter, the tender holds 25,000 gal of water, and 56,000 lbs of coal, i think they have changed it over to burn diesel now. it was also hinged in the middle somewhere so it could go around the curves.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 1:20am |
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I do remember thru the years, the BigBoy would charge thru our town, not run a normal speed. that was because years ago a kid was killed trying to beat a train in his car, his dad blamed the rail road, the dad also sued the rail road...but lost the suit due to the rail road was found not at fault in his boys death. i remember him threatening to sabatoge the BigBoy when it came thru town. the day when the train was to pass...the boys dad couldn't be found. (there wasn't much for law enforcement back then) and when we would get our spot along the rails to watch...we would see a rail road pickup go thru a ways ahead of the train, then we would see a helicopter fly over after the pickup, then BigBoy came thru...pretty safe to say prolly about 75 MPH or better, and another helicopter flying above it.
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Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 1:29am |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xDj45zF-l0
Case Steam Traction Engine Pulling 44 - 14 bottom plows
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Posted: 22 Jun 2022 at 6:02am |
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When I was 12 we went on vacation to the Wisconsin Dells via Green Bay and stopped at the railroad museum. Big Boy 4017 (I think) is on display there, and you could get in the cab and hang out the windows. Looking down that boiler at 12 looked like it was a city block long. About 10 years ago my wife and I went to Springfield, Missouri and stopped at the transportation museum in St. Louis. They too have a Big Boy with full cab access just like the one in Green Bay, and while it's still a huge locomotive it just didn't seem as big as it did to 12 year old me.
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