For BIG Train Lovers

[JTHunter]

Big Boy 4014



It's on tour and will be going through north and east central ILL-ANNOY.
Check out the video on the Union Pacific website.

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/

[Hawkmoon]

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https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/

Hmmm ...

There's a diesel pusher in that train, just behind the tender, and it's belching black smoke. I wonder if the Big Boy is really doing any work, or if it's just spewing steam while the diesel does the work.

[JTHunter]

Hmmm ...

There's a diesel pusher in that train, just behind the tender, and it's belching black smoke. I wonder if the Big Boy is really doing any work, or if it's just spewing steam while the diesel does the work.

Considering its age and that, according to the video, replacement parts had to be individually made, that wouldn't surprise me.

[JTHunter]

Here's another one.  Unfortunately, it isn't a real train. 



I did a slight change on this picture.  You can see it by looking at the nameplate in the center front of the boiler. 

[French G.]

When I saw 4014 in Kansas there was a diesel engine in the train but was just for recovery.  Big boy doing all the work. Wild pictures, chased it for five towns across Kansas,  stood a few feet from it as it went by at full speed.

[cordex]

I didn’t realize they had converted it to oil burning.

[K Frame]

I think there was another thread some years ago talking about the Big Boy and its conversion to fuel oil...

Number 5 requires a fair amount of preheating to get it to atomize properly, otherwise it either won't flow or it will destroy the injectors.

[230RN]

^"I didn’t realize they had converted it to oil burning."

It was parked on a spur off Wewatta street (Denver) next to my building about fifteen years ago.  There was a set of wooden stairs going up to the cab which I took as an invitation to go up to the cab.  Talked to the engineer for a while, noticed no real fire-box looking stuff.  He told me it was converted to oil, which surprised me.  I went back to the "souvenir car" and bought a Big Boy coffee cup but don't know whatever happened to it.  I might have given it to Son1, who is a train person.

[French G.]

Some other train, it was parked at a museum in Cali 15 years ago.

[230RN]

No, it was the Big Boy, I was just trying to guesstimate a date based on when I retired.  As a matter of fact supposition, its stop in Denver might have been on its way to CA. At my age it's hard to specifically tag years with certainty.

For further interest (ha!) and amusement (ha!):

The spur was right by my building, off of the rail yard which is no longer there either.  Union Station is still there, but no trains, just buses. If you do an aerial view of 15th and  Wewatta in Denver, my building was the dark building north of the one which has the Fogo de Chao restaurant flagged in its south corner and the curved building nearby is the Gates (Rubber Company) building.  The loco was parked directly between Gates and my building.  That whole area has  changed enormously since they closed the rail yard.  The triangular building wasn't there at the time; it was just a grassy area.  Heaven forbid my having to visit that area in Denver again --or Denver at all --but if I did, I'd probably be totally confozzled.