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Big Boy 4014 traveling the West
susie
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Later in the fall Big Boy will be in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Love trains, older the better. This one is just so cool.
Always enjoyed going to the train museum in St.Louis County when I was a kid.
Last week we visited the out-of-service Big Boy that has been in a Cheyenne park next to the tennis courts for many years. Sure is one big piece of iron.
Dang I'd love to see that engine up close!
Likewise for me. That would be quite something I'm sure.
My oldest son lives for trains
He traves the country with his GF
Photographing and riding
I know he is on the 765 big boy group out of Indiana
The" big boy" named trains are truly awesome in so many ways
He sells train books on line and at train shows
He was just saying they had booked a ride maybe on the one your posting about I will have to ask again
They are truly a American heritage train engine to behold
Monsters Of steel
Hats off to the folks who lovingly give their time to keep these old machines running.
member Idaho Bound, his father got to drive/engineer it a few years ago when it made a turn from Ogden Utah to Boise Idaho via Pocatello Idaho.
Mule
Tell them to send that down here to North Carolina. We have train tracks down here, I'd love to see that.
In the Atlanta History Center we have locomotive Texas. The train that was in The Great Locomotive Chase in the Civil War. You can climb right up into the wheelhouse and pull the levers, it is an incredible sight to see.
When I first hired out on the railroad back in 1968 there where some storage tracks that where full of old steam engines. They were sold off as scrap, some were bought by steel mills and converted to burn oil instead of coal. But none of them were the size of big boy. I’ve seen others go though on excursion trips before when I was still working, but they had been converted as well to burn fuel oil as well. When ever they came through, the owners ran the engine, but they had to have one of are engineers on board the engine as well that was familiar with the territory and track they were running on. Would be a hoot to see it running a track speed on the main line though.
I was in one of those towns when it stopped. That thing is a monster. IF you ever get a few days I recommend people go see it if they have any interest in that thing.
Back in the 80's. we went on vacation to the northeast US. On our travels, we wound up at Steamtown in Vermont. They had a bunch of steam engines there that were on display. We even went on a train ride pulled by an Alco steamer. Big fun.
Since then the steam engines have been sold to different places all over the US.
Joe