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Huge "Big Boy" Steam Locomotive Coming Back to Life
http://news.yahoo.com/huge-big-boy-steam-locomotive-coming-back-life-073258235.htmlCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the mountains of Wyoming and Utah.
It's been silent for half a century, pushed aside by more efficient diesels, but now it's coming back to life. The Union Pacific Railroad is embarking on a yearslong restoration project that will put No. 4014 back to work pulling special excursion trains.
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I put this up in the lounge, but in case you missed it.. For steam locomotive fans..(and train fans) .I know you will want to know.. I hope this is not too off topic..
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Huge "Big Boy" Steam Locomotive Coming Back to Life (Original Post)
Stuart G
Apr 2014
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. I must ride that excursion train.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,216 posts)2. They are awesome machines.
I've seen a few of them up close.
What I would give to run one of them............
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)3. I saw this locomotive many times at the fair
grounds near LA. I wished silently that it would be restored before it deteriorated too much.
Got my wish.
BarbaRosa
(2,690 posts)4. Not 4014
but wow, what a machine!
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)5. Very cool, thank you!