Big Boy # 4014

The Big Boy steam engine is making its way from Cheyenne to California. Laramie was the first stop. This engine is so impressive. Here it is leaving Laramie. It was fun to wait on the foot bridge for it to show up. The whistle is one of the most impressive things about it. Here Is a Union Pacific link which gives some information and has a great video. And here is a very short video of it in Iowa up to speed.
Some of the UP information:
Twenty-five Big Boys were built exclusively for Union Pacific Railroad, the first of which was delivered in 1941. The locomotives were 132 feet long and weighed 1.2 million pounds. Because of their great length, the frames of the Big Boys were "hinged," or articulated, to allow them to negotiate curves. They had a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, which meant they had four wheels on the leading set of "pilot" wheels which guided the engine, eight drivers, another set of eight drivers, and four wheels following which supported the rear of the locomotive. The massive engines normally operated between Ogden, Utah, and Cheyenne, Wyo.


I'm doing this quickly. We have a big storm going on and I don't want to lose this if we lose power.