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We got to see the Big Boy Steam Locomotive train this morning
October 13, 2024, 06:12 PM
MelissaDallasWe got to see the Big Boy Steam Locomotive train this morning
Very cool. No crowds at all where we were. You could walk right up to the track. in hindsight, we could have taken better pictures if we had backed up a little to across the street.
October 13, 2024, 06:14 PM
229DAKWe'd be satisfied with the lousy pictures.
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October 13, 2024, 07:23 PM
rduckworIt is an amazing piece of machinery! RMD
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October 13, 2024, 07:40 PM
6gunsquote:
Originally posted by 229DAK:
We'd be satisfied with the lousy pictures.
Yes! C'mon Melissa.
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October 13, 2024, 08:20 PM
MelissaDallasOctober 13, 2024, 08:21 PM
MelissaDallasI’m still not managing the imbed link!
October 13, 2024, 08:32 PM
6gunsCool pictures! I hope you don't mind.
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October 13, 2024, 09:04 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_BoyWheel arrangement is 4-8-8-4, i.e., 4 leading unpowered wheels, 2 sets of 8 driving wheels, 4 trailing unpowered wheels, per the Whyte Notation (has its own article).
Its total length with the "trucks" on each end is
~132 feet.
Its total weight is ~595 tons. The article is not clear whether this includes the weight of the
~25,000 gallons of water (100 tons) and the 28 tons of coal. Twenty-five were built from 1941-44 -
the height of World War II.
October 13, 2024, 09:35 PM
Scuba Steve SigI've been around alot of loud stuff in my 43 years, but hearing that thing's whistle is the loudest I ever heard. I could feel the ground shaking from it.
Union Pacific really did a good job getting one back and getting it running again.
October 13, 2024, 09:40 PM
darthfusterWhen we saw it in Utah, my niece stood too close to one of the drive wheels while I took her picture. When she stepped away toward me, her hair had a glop of grease in it. She was not pleased lol.
There’s nothing like the sound of a steam whisle as that engine pulls through the canyon.
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RedhookbklynLargest fire tube steam boiler ever built.
Majestic and powerful.
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October 13, 2024, 11:15 PM
sjtillRecently saw a Jay Leno episode on Big Boy. Video may have been posted here, I can’t remember.
You can find it on YouTube; there’s lots of history and detailed info about it that’s fun.
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October 14, 2024, 06:54 AM
ImabmwnutLoudest thing I’ve ever heard was F14s on the cats. Full zone 5 afterburner with an unlimited climb. 2 westpacs on the USS Kitty Hawk. Working the flight deck was the most fascinating job I ever had.
October 14, 2024, 06:57 AM
Orgussquote:
Originally posted by Imabmwnut:
Loudest thing I’ve ever heard was F14s on the cats. Full zone 5 afterburner with an unlimited climb. 2 westpacs on the USS Kitty Hawk. Working the flight deck was the most fascinating job I ever had.
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MNSIGI've seen the Yellowstone locomotives on static display, but never in motion. The Big Boy rolling down the tracks has to be an awesome sight.
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GeorgeairThat is three times the weight of a modern diesel locomotive. Amazing.
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October 14, 2024, 04:21 PM
.38supersigNice!
October 14, 2024, 05:47 PM
229DAKAll of that engineering done without computers, too.
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“A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.”
-- Mark Twain, 1902
October 14, 2024, 06:27 PM
MelissaDallasIt was beautiful, and the earth does shake. We could hear the horn and bells a long time before it got to us. When we were little we lived a couple of blocks from where the pictures were made. Daddy used to walk us over there to put coins on the rails, so Sis put a quarter down yesterday and picked it up before we left. The best local pictures I’ve seen were made close to downtown with our historic Morrison Mills in the background. (Corn-Kits).
