Got to see a few Big Boys pulling freights through in central Nebraska, when I was a young boy. Not many because they didn't need to be used on the flat lands there, but when they did, dad told me and my grandma lived on Front Street, so a visit to her served a dual purpose. If I get to see a steam 4000 again, pulling an honest load by itself, I guess it'd be time to say, "Thanks Lord", and just go on out of here.
Comment June 2023: it’s hard to believe how long ago Big Boy began his journey. Seems like only yesterday I watched them tow it off static display in Pomona through the fairgrounds parking lot!
Thanks Toy Man for the great video! Great scenery, great shots, great music. And I like your laid back narrative. Keep us jealous East Coasters posted!
I grew up with big locomotives running through my back yard in Boston. I’d stand on the fence and wave. Could really touch it if I reached out. But we kids weren’t that dumb. Had a train running through my back yard in Safety Harbor, Florida. Although I moved, there is a track about a mile from me and I can hear the trains late at night.
Not sure if I ever saw one of those things running. If I did I was very young and it just didn’t make an impression I guess. I want to told my uncle that I wanted to see a steam locomotive running and he said oh you’ve seen that 1 million times! And I said no I haven’t and he said well I guess they’re not around much anymore but trust me you’ve seen them. So I assume I did I just can’t remember it darn it
There are two Big Boy's up in Duluth Minnesota. One is in a museum Downtown and you can climb on and check it all out. I've climbed into the fire box of it! The other Big Boy is sitting up on the mountain from the bay of Duluth Minnesota, Lake Superior. This one you can climb on it and that's it can't go inside.
We need Americana like this For everyone that cares to see and maybe touch not hidden away and almost forgotten. It's amazing to know how special Big Boy was to so many people across the states it traveled as it was to me at my local fairgrounds every year.
My Dad road behind UP4005 on a troop train during ww2. The conductor took any of the soldiers that were interested up to see that locomotive that now lives in Denver. My dad bought a first generation Max Grey O scale Big Boy #UP4005. So I have watched it run since my childhood. He never thought that the Big Boys would never run again. He passed in 1999. He did chase 3985 and 844 around a lot in his life, so I related to your video in so many ways. Why did it take me almost 3 years to find these videos of yours???
There was one off a UP loco mounted on the North Salt Lake shops for years!!! 3 times day they blew it. Time for work, time for lunch, go home!! Loved that!!! A friend put it on his model of the shops in HO. So often listened to that and wished it was a real locomotive.
Thank you for the great videos about Big Boy. I have been admiring it at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds for years and it is so much fun seeing it on the move.
Thank you for the Video!! Was very nice to see a high quality video of the Big Boy. Sure wish it would have been in the lead for the final leg from Laramie to Cheyenne, but it will be in the lead under its own power soon enough!! Thank UP for restoring this important History.
844, the northern type that was also at the UP's steam shop' was finished! Big Boy's friend the 4-8-4 is up and running under it's power and I REALLY hope they do a double header with those. THAT WOULD BE AWSEOME.
I'm Locomotive Engineer and get to run steam on a regular bases. Our locomotives aren't nearly as long as a Big Boy and I find it difficult to see around the boiler, so I have to rely on my fireman's eyes especially on curves to the left. With the Big Boys extra long boiler the Engineer would have had to rely even more on his Fireman for left side visuals. Would love to get my hand on the throttle when they get the 4014 running.
just amazing commentary and footage thanks for sharing :-) I'm so glad #4014 is coming back to life i wonder if they will ever do a double header with #3985 and #4014 as a farewell to #3985 and a welcome back to #4014 now that will be epic and a nice way to retire or vacate #3985's along with her bigger brother the big boy. :-). I will be in my mid 30s when #4014 and I hope to share this moment with my grandfather because when i was younger he would always praise the BigBoy and i never knew the engine until i saw old videos of it :-)
I discovered your videos when I was doing a search for video of my personal favored locomotive the Southern Crescent 1404. not much video on her found yet. I have personal history with this train as a youngster I and my family often road this train from Atlanta to Birmingham almost every weekend. While I was never privileged to ride being pulled by the 1401 itself but I do remember the porters, and the staff always talking about her. My father was a 3rd generation engineer for Southern Railway so my love for trains was in stilled in me at a very young age. Any way thank you for you videos always loved trains.
If you thought 4,000 people was a lot, you should have seen the crowd chasing it when it left Colton, CA on the 28th. It was a mad house! Excellent job on covering this historic move!
The oilers on the 4014 were not 'jury rigged', the chain is part of the original design. Most of the time you do see the chain mostly covered with a protective steel sleeve, though.
Personally I wish they pulled the 4014 back to the shops with either the 844 or the 3985 but they are still restoring a big boy so I can’t complain also great video and narration.
You are lucky to find out about things ahead of time. Our news only tell us about thing after the fact. We had a Christmas train move through here. We were told the next day. They new about it. They had reporter along the way.
Hi It's some stuff I have in my library. Called "smart sound". I have like 25 cds and software for editing it. And they have hundreds of pieces that can be downloaded for about $20 each. Expensive, but that's with rights and I use this stuff at my studio for all kinds of things. This one is by Richard Band called Americana.
Great Job... I salute you, Sir for a fine production! I always wondered why they dragged their feet on the restoration of a Big Boy. They did a Challenger, probably because a Challenger is an oil burner and more easy to refuel in the Diesel era? Plus, you can burn Diesel in an oil burner, like the little locomotives at Disneyland...
+JungleYT Some emploies did the Challenger on their own before UP got behind it. It was a coal fired at first but on it's first outing to Utah, it started hundreds (no lie) of fires and even almost burned a house. So the UP converted it to oil. Many of the Challengers were oil from the beginning, but not 3985. Hope to see that one back on the rails at some point.
+Toy Man Television Thanks for the information... I did not realize that the 3985 was down. I did a little reading as per your notice. In this day and time and with modern 3D manufacturing processes, no excuse to NOT be able to make new parts or have more than one copy these locos operational. Pass this on to the powers that be...
El más bello monumento viviente del genio del hombre que tan sólo usando las dos más viejas energias del mundo, lograron poner en marcha tan bella y poderosa máquina, también las lagrimas caen solas de tanta emoción, de ver esta hermosa mole moverse con tanta gracia, para mi, ésta es la más hermosa máquina hecha por el hombre.
abbiamo bisogno di andare a Chyenne Wyoming di seguire il lavoro . Essi fissano il progetto da parte per costruire una nuova scatola di fuoco nel 844. Ora hanno gli strumenti e sanno come farlo, e stanno iniziando sul focolare Big Boy .
gives me chills that this will be back in service in 2019 and i will love to see this thing in action that history is back in action and i am getting really emotional
All looking at this, I will travel from Denmark to the States just to see and ride with this train when it is out on the tracks again.. See you :-) Great video!!
We don't bite. OK Trump might, not sure. But America is mostly harmless. Mostly. And we have some great trains! I was in Denmark in 1972. Winter. Cold. But warm people!! Loved it.
Thanks, Im not afraid of Trump, I see he is a provocative person but trust me - you do not want USA to end up like Sweden or Germany. I work internationally and often with American people, always great people and proud of their country (as they should be) Working on a Fastback 1968 Mustang and in general interested in American history - must be the media influence ha ha. Where in Denmark did you go back in 1972? Copenhagen is beautiful and old, if you ever go back let me know I would be happy to give you some travel tips. I am looking forward to see the States, the closest I have been was Toronto Canada. Thanks for the video, great :-)
Yes, Copenhagen. Just at Christmas. Was hoping to go to the Arctic in Sweden too. Because I'm nuts. Made it to Stockholm. Mostly rode boats around, sort of fun. Beautiful!!! Spent a few days in Copenhagen. Wanted to see Tivoli. But closed for the winter. I guess we need to get back!!!
Well, if you ever go back you should go and see the old castles in/near Copenhagen. The "Kronborg castle" was where Shakespeere was inspired to write the Hamlet. I have been at the arctic circle in Norway, North-cape back in the 90s on a vacation with my parents and 3 years ago my dad and I went to Stockholm to see the Vasa Ship from the 1600s. A lot of history in Scandinavia, you are more than welcome :-)
It would be nice to see complete resto documentry of this monster, I would also Like to see its arch rival the Alleganey (in the Henry Ford museum restored and running. the two behemoths of an amazing era :)
Thats cool. There was a Big Boy whistle on the loco shops in Salt Lake for years that they blew with steam to announce the shift changes. Could be heard at our house 8 miles away.
I really enjoyed your 'Big Boy' video and I'm wondering whether you are aware of the Southern Pacific version. SP ran their version over the Sierra mountains and the length was such that they turned the boiler and cab around and connected that to the tender so that the crewmen could see the tracks ahead. I have an HO reproduction but don't know of an original. My father was an SP locomotive fireman and worked on the SP version and ran between Sparks and Carlin NV. Those were all numbered in a series of 4100 or 4200. I suspect SP was a little more aggressive in the junk business and I'd appreciate learning of a surviving example in a museum that I could visit.
the cab forwards were interesting. They also were designed so the crew wouldn't suffocate going through the long tunnels. Needless to say they were oil burners which southwest railroads preferred anyway as it was easier to get oil than coal out west...
Fantastic as always. You choice of orchestral instrumental music adds so much. Thank you. (p.s. was it design, or caprice that the rear diesel was #4884; the same as the truck configuration?)
In Trainstation: The Game On Rails, There is Big Boy, Big Boy Triple, Mountain Pass BIGBOY, BIGBADBOY, Horror (a halloween BIGBOY), BIGBOY Duochrome and many more BIGBOY's
Oh man, that is SO awesome! UP, I see what you did there! :P UP really is a cool railroad! Love their restoration and heritage units. That's how you keep the public looking at you favorably. I'm starting an N scale model railroad after years being away from the hobby. I'm modeling primarily DME (Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern), with some ICE (Iowa, Chicago, & Eastern, DME's sister railroad), CNW (Chicago & Northwestern, the railroad where DME and ICE's lines came from), and Rock Island. Basically, I'm modeling fallen flags that I grew up seeing, but not in their times... I'm modeling them as if they were still around today, as if the bankruptcies, sales, and mega-mergers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s had never happened. There will be no BNSF, no CSX on my inter-railway connections. UP will just be UP. There will be some inter-rail Chessie System, some Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific, and yeah... UP will be there. Though the big mergers killed a lot of classic road names, UP is more or less a classic, and I'll let their stock roll on my rails.
Gee I sure the hell did not know the big boy had radio speakers mounted. You can hear the music all the way to your camera. Yea it had to be the diesels. You can not trust a diesel. They make all kinds of funny noises.
+ToyMan *Actually, the Union Pacific contracted with the American Locomotive Company,* located alongside the New York Central tracks at Schenectady, NY, USA, for their 25 builds of 4-8+8-4 Single Expansion Articulated, Class BSA-1; this class was engineered to pull 2,000 tons single-handed over the steep grades of the Wasatch, a situation where the UP's existing 4-8-4 Americans, Classes FEF-1 and FEF-2 (an influence on the NYC's short-lived 4-8-4's, Class S1a), had to doublehead. The UP's existing 4-6+6-4 American Single Expansion Articulateds, Classes CSA-1 through CSA-6, could pull 1,6oo tons single-handed over the Wasatch and were the Class BSA-1's design baseline.
WOW. Good info. One thing I am really struck with is who late they were built. The war delayed the builds to 1944 in the end as I recall. THese were the most "modern" steam locos built in the US. Amazing "Last of the giants for sure"....
+ToyMan *American Locomotive was fourth priority behind arms manufacturers, shipbuilders and automotive manufacturers,* as U. S. Armies in the field needed guns, bayonets, swords, grenades, artillery ammunition, &c. for the fight, plus tanks and trucks to take 'em within striking distance of the enemy. The Navy and Marine Corps also needed ships to take 'em within effective range of islands to be reconquered and enemy task forces to be engaged and sunk. That meant the railroads needed locomotives and rolling stock to get those munitions and vehicles to embarcation for the hot war overseas.
that bicyle chain is not jury rigged.......it was put on there by the U.P in the late forties beacuse the lenghth of the rod running the lubericator was prone to breaking......it is the ONLY chain driven device on an American steam locomotive.
It’s going back together right now! Looking absolutely amazing too, but all the parts to rebuild still some work to do on the boiler but already there put in the lagging on it! Still on schedule for May of next year. No guarantees however! We are heading up there to take a look at it at the end of May when it will be open to the public
I worked at Curry Miller Veneers in the later part of the 80,s when the ground shuuuk under my feet I thought it a earthquake when this big steam engine riled by being pulled and I don't quite know the class of the engine but it was very heavy and everything shake around the mill mean machine yea
There were I believe three locomotives that were larger of the big boy depending on how are you measure them. At least one was heavier at least one was longer. As you mentioned the triplex had more drive wheels. All of the other locomotives were intended for helper service. The big boy was the only mainline locomotive of that size.
YES!! It's actually 4014, same number as the Big Boy. When the Big Boy is ready they will need to change that Or some workaround. Thats why 844 was 8444 for years. Diesel 844 is now in a museum in Bolder Nevada. (we have a show on that museum) so 844 got it's number back. The other diesel is 4884. Same as the wheel arrangement and class of 4014. Gotta love the UP.
Best video I have seen so far of the big boy thru Utah thanks and keep up the good work
anderberger it must be a LONG time to work on it
Was actually made like 50 years ago but ok.
Big Boy is a symbol of 20th Century American engineering, determination, and power!
True. It beat all of them puny streamliners!
Got to see a few Big Boys pulling freights through in central Nebraska, when I was a young boy. Not many because they didn't need to be used on the flat lands there, but when they did, dad told me and my grandma lived on Front Street, so a visit to her served a dual purpose. If I get to see a steam 4000 again, pulling an honest load by itself, I guess it'd be time to say, "Thanks Lord", and just go on out of here.
Comment June 2023: it’s hard to believe how long ago Big Boy began his journey. Seems like only yesterday I watched them tow it off static display in Pomona through the fairgrounds parking lot!
Thanks Toy Man for the great video! Great scenery, great shots, great music. And I like your laid back narrative. Keep us jealous East Coasters posted!
I grew up with big locomotives running through my back yard in Boston. I’d stand on the fence and wave. Could really touch it if I reached out. But we kids weren’t that dumb. Had a train running through my back yard in Safety Harbor, Florida. Although I moved, there is a track about a mile from me and I can hear the trains late at night.
Not sure if I ever saw one of those things running. If I did I was very young and it just didn’t make an impression I guess. I want to told my uncle that I wanted to see a steam locomotive running and he said oh you’ve seen that 1 million times! And I said no I haven’t and he said well I guess they’re not around much anymore but trust me you’ve seen them. So I assume I did I just can’t remember it darn it
Toy Man Television
I can’t imagine seeing a steam locomotive and not remembering.
Great video and nice background music. Matching #4014 diesel in front, #4884 (4-8-8-4) in the rear...perfect!
There are two Big Boy's up in Duluth Minnesota. One is in a museum Downtown and you can climb on and check it all out. I've climbed into the fire box of it!
The other Big Boy is sitting up on the mountain from the bay of Duluth Minnesota, Lake Superior.
This one you can climb on it and that's it can't go inside.
Very cool video. Thank you for sharing! UPRR former SPRR town of Ventura, CA! Also love the SP 4449.
As much as I like todays modern trains, it's good to see steamers like the big boy 4014 running again.
We need Americana like this For everyone that cares to see and maybe touch not hidden away and almost forgotten. It's amazing to know how special Big Boy was to so many people across the states it traveled as it was to me at my local fairgrounds every year.
Yes, this monster was at the LA Fair Grounds for decades. Nice to see it getting fixed.
My Dad road behind UP4005 on a troop train during ww2. The conductor took any of the soldiers that were interested up to see that locomotive that now lives in Denver. My dad bought a first generation Max Grey O scale Big Boy #UP4005. So I have watched it run since my childhood. He never thought that the Big Boys would never run again. He passed in 1999. He did chase 3985 and 844 around a lot in his life, so I related to your video in so many ways. Why did it take me almost 3 years to find these videos of yours???
Glad you found us.
You dad got to ride behind the big boy with the most interesting history
Truly Last of the Giants... long live the Big Boy!
What a machine!!
I love that!! It's Richard Band. I bought rights to about 4 hours of his music, Writes music for features and TV spots. I can always spot is stuff.
Doesnt have a name. Heres a link. www.smartsound.com/royalty-free-music/Richard+Band+Vol+7+-+Scoring+Suites/Cinematic+Action+3/
With that thing its more like ROAR!!!! ROAR!!!!!!! RRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!!!
There was one off a UP loco mounted on the North Salt Lake shops for years!!! 3 times day they blew it. Time for work, time for lunch, go home!! Loved that!!! A friend put it on his model of the shops in HO. So often listened to that and wished it was a real locomotive.
Thank you for the great videos about Big Boy. I have been admiring it at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds for years and it is so much fun seeing it on the move.
I just noticed that the front locomotive is also numbered 4014! They should have gotten their huge DDA40X to come along, too!
Thank you for the Video!! Was very nice to see a high quality video of the Big Boy. Sure wish it would have been in the lead for the final leg from Laramie to Cheyenne, but it will be in the lead under its own power soon enough!! Thank UP for restoring this important History.
Wonderful thank you for posting this…...
What a great locomotive!! SOON it will be back!!
844, the northern type that was also at the UP's steam shop' was finished! Big Boy's friend the 4-8-4 is up and running under it's power and I REALLY hope they do a double header with those. THAT WOULD BE AWSEOME.
We wanted to get out the the Denver run, but just could not fit it in. We want to get up to Cheyenne if they will let us in.
The Business Creeper read they are looking to do a triple header with 844 3985 and big boy
This is what built america, this is beautiful, thank you for sharing this.
Coming right along too.... about 14 months away!1
I'm Locomotive Engineer and get to run steam on a regular bases. Our locomotives aren't nearly as long as a Big Boy and I find it difficult to see around the boiler, so I have to rely on my fireman's eyes especially on curves to the left. With the Big Boys extra long boiler the Engineer would have had to rely even more on his Fireman for left side visuals. Would love to get my hand on the throttle when they get the 4014 running.
+David Turner Hope it makes the 2019 event here in Salt Lake!!!! WOW
just amazing commentary and footage thanks for sharing :-) I'm so glad #4014 is coming back to life i wonder if they will ever do a double header with #3985 and #4014 as a farewell to #3985 and a welcome back to #4014 now that will be epic and a nice way to retire or vacate #3985's along with her bigger brother the big boy. :-). I will be in my mid 30s when #4014 and I hope to share this moment with my grandfather because when i was younger he would always praise the BigBoy and i never knew the engine until i saw old videos of it :-)
I discovered your videos when I was doing a search for video of my personal favored locomotive the Southern Crescent 1404. not much video on her found yet. I have personal history with this train as a youngster I and my family often road this train from Atlanta to Birmingham almost every weekend. While I was never privileged to ride being pulled by the 1401 itself but I do remember the porters, and the staff always talking about her. My father was a 3rd generation engineer for Southern Railway so my love for trains was in stilled in me at a very young age. Any way thank you for you videos always loved trains.
Very cool!!!! Love that train. Have an HO of it. Although we do have like 100 HO locomotives.... BUT love that Crescent!!!
If you thought 4,000 people was a lot, you should have seen the crowd chasing it when it left Colton, CA on the 28th. It was a mad house! Excellent job on covering this historic move!
Patrick3751
BIG BOY SHOULD BE THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD. THANK YOU, MISS STDEAM LOCOS.
And SOON...... It will run again!
is it just me, or is it oddly satisfying watching each set of drive wheels turning in sync with each other?
Could watch for hours. Ah.. HAVE watched for hours.
Wolfox perfect question
Wolfox yes it is
Such a well produced video. Thanks for making it and sharing the grandeur of the Big Boy with the world.
This video still makes me all emotional... even after all this time! Can't wait for the complete restoration!
Super video with about great historical perspective!!! Thank you!!
The oilers on the 4014 were not 'jury rigged', the chain is part of the original design. Most of the time you do see the chain mostly covered with a protective steel sleeve, though.
the 4018 is now in frisco texas (use to be in dallas at the fair grounds) they moved it because it was going to a new train museum
Very nicely done Video, thank you for your work and information man. Well done!!
Thanks right back!! What a great loco. 2019!!!!! WOW.
One of the best train ever constructed!
When she is breathing steam and smoke again the whole world will smile. A Giant Returns
Personally I wish they pulled the 4014 back to the shops with either the 844 or the 3985 but they are still restoring a big boy so I can’t complain also great video and narration.
You are lucky to find out about things ahead of time. Our news only tell us about thing after the fact. We had a Christmas train move through here. We were told the next day. They new about it. They had reporter along the way.
Always hard to find out when.
Really nicely done, many thanks!
Great production....
Great Video and very nice commentary.
Great Job filming this.
Beautifully shot video! Great narration. What is the name of the background music?
Hi It's some stuff I have in my library. Called "smart sound". I have like 25 cds and software for editing it. And they have hundreds of pieces that can be downloaded for about $20 each. Expensive, but that's with rights and I use this stuff at my studio for all kinds of things. This one is by Richard Band called Americana.
Great video and and excellent choice of music.
+mhgs13 Thanks!! Richard Band music. COOL STUFF! He rights movie sound tracks. Fits super well!!
he's going home!
Great Job... I salute you, Sir for a fine production! I always wondered why they dragged their feet on the restoration of a Big Boy. They did a Challenger, probably because a Challenger is an oil burner and more easy to refuel in the Diesel era? Plus, you can burn Diesel in an oil burner, like the little locomotives at Disneyland...
+JungleYT Some emploies did the Challenger on their own before UP got behind it. It was a coal fired at first but on it's first outing to Utah, it started hundreds (no lie) of fires and even almost burned a house. So the UP converted it to oil. Many of the Challengers were oil from the beginning, but not 3985. Hope to see that one back on the rails at some point.
+Toy Man Television Thanks for the information... I did not realize that the 3985 was down. I did a little reading as per your notice. In this day and time and with modern 3D manufacturing processes, no excuse to NOT be able to make new parts or have more than one copy these locos operational. Pass this on to the powers that be...
Hope the big boy to have a safe journey home ☺
We hope to be there for testing.
4 8 8 4 wow! How many other locomotives were of this configuration?
Just these 25.
And of the 25, only 8 of them (counting this one) were saved from scrap.
Wonderful, wonderful video, Thank you!
Heading up in a few weeks for a followup. Loco totally apart now.
i love the big boy, especially The Big one From the galaxy railways which is a advanced flying big boy model from that show.
Great video!
Thanks. More coming.
wow. AWESOME!!!!!
I love the DVD style of your videos!
Thanks! It takes time but as I love it, its not work. Not sure what work is! Screwing around is work?
Brillent, it must of been some sight seeing that!
-Kyle
El más bello monumento viviente del genio del hombre que tan sólo usando las dos más viejas energias del mundo, lograron poner en marcha tan bella y poderosa máquina, también las lagrimas caen solas de tanta emoción, de ver esta hermosa mole moverse con tanta gracia, para mi, ésta es la más hermosa máquina hecha por el hombre.
abbiamo bisogno di andare a Chyenne Wyoming di seguire il lavoro . Essi fissano il progetto da parte per costruire una nuova scatola di fuoco nel 844. Ora hanno gli strumenti e sanno come farlo, e stanno iniziando sul focolare Big Boy .
Lets go big boy!!!!You will rumble again in 2019 or 2020!!!!!
The countdown starts on May 10. WOW!!!
I’m probably going to see the union pacific big boy once I get to the union pacific rail yard
It's interesting to notice that the diesel loco leading the group also has the 4014 number as the big boy number is the same.
I noticed that the other diesel has the locomotives wheel arrangement as a number. Ed worked for months to pull that one
gives me chills that this will be back in service in 2019 and i will love to see this thing in action that history is back in action and i am getting really emotional
+Michael Wood Me too. Heading to Cheyenne soon to followup on it. What a machine!
thanks
may the 4th, 2019, it is back iin action
I would imagine that if they didn't lube at every hundred miles it would either seize up or come apart or both. Nice videos glad I'm subscribed.
AND they have automatic oilers running all the time. But still need to "oil around" every 100 miles or so.
All looking at this, I will travel from Denmark to the States just to see and ride with this train when it is out on the tracks again..
See you :-)
Great video!!
We don't bite. OK Trump might, not sure. But America is mostly harmless. Mostly. And we have some great trains! I was in Denmark in 1972. Winter. Cold. But warm people!! Loved it.
Thanks, Im not afraid of Trump, I see he is a provocative person but trust me - you do not want USA to end up like Sweden or Germany.
I work internationally and often with American people, always great people and proud of their country (as they should be)
Working on a Fastback 1968 Mustang and in general interested in American history - must be the media influence ha ha.
Where in Denmark did you go back in 1972? Copenhagen is beautiful and old, if you ever go back let me know I would be happy to give you some travel tips.
I am looking forward to see the States, the closest I have been was Toronto Canada.
Thanks for the video, great :-)
Yes, Copenhagen. Just at Christmas. Was hoping to go to the Arctic in Sweden too. Because I'm nuts. Made it to Stockholm. Mostly rode boats around, sort of fun. Beautiful!!! Spent a few days in Copenhagen. Wanted to see Tivoli. But closed for the winter. I guess we need to get back!!!
Well, if you ever go back you should go and see the old castles in/near Copenhagen. The "Kronborg castle" was where Shakespeere was inspired to write the Hamlet.
I have been at the arctic circle in Norway, North-cape back in the 90s on a vacation with my parents and 3 years ago my dad and I went to Stockholm to see the Vasa Ship from the 1600s.
A lot of history in Scandinavia, you are more than welcome :-)
Went there several times!!!! Loved that!!! Love old castles.
It would be nice to see complete resto documentry of this monster, I would also Like to see its arch rival the Alleganey (in the Henry Ford museum restored and running. the two behemoths of an amazing era :)
That would be great. Im sure it will be out there too. We want to get up there to see the progress too.
Great video! I was wondering do you have a side shot of the boxcar before the other boxcar UPP 9313 Cheyenne WY Rotary Snow Plow car??????
the NRM national railway museum gb York who owns the mallard used compressed air to sound its whistle on its 25th anniversary
Thats cool. There was a Big Boy whistle on the loco shops in Salt Lake for years that they blew with steam to announce the shift changes. Could be heard at our house 8 miles away.
I really enjoyed your 'Big Boy' video and I'm wondering whether you are aware of the Southern Pacific version. SP ran their version over the Sierra mountains and the length was such that they turned the boiler and cab around and connected that to the tender so that the crewmen could see the tracks ahead. I have an HO reproduction but don't know of an original. My father was an SP locomotive fireman and worked on the SP version and ran between Sparks and Carlin NV. Those were all numbered in a series of 4100 or 4200. I suspect SP was a little more aggressive in the junk business and I'd appreciate learning of a surviving example in a museum that I could visit.
One left in the California State Museum in Sacramento. ua-cam.com/video/UQz2icnSvtA/v-deo.html
the cab forwards were interesting. They also were designed so the crew wouldn't suffocate going through the long tunnels. Needless to say they were oil burners which southwest railroads preferred anyway as it was easier to get oil than coal out west...
Fantastic as always. You choice of orchestral instrumental music adds so much. Thank you. (p.s. was it design, or caprice that the rear diesel was #4884; the same as the truck configuration?)
Nope, planned out!! The other loco was 4014! Love the UP!!!!
1 week ago i got to see 4017 in wisconsin
wanna see that!
If you pause at 4:47 you can see that the Union Pacific in front of Big Boy says "4014"!!! Never know that til' now.
And the rear is 4-8-8-4!!!
In a few years, she'll be dominating the U-P Rails once again.
Looking forward to it. Off to Cheyenne in a few weeks to follow up.
biscuit big is technically a boy, as per UP official videos.
Now she’s up and running again
Wonder if the world #8.
It stays an amazing vehicle😍
Will SOOn be back on the tracks!!! May next year??
I hope so!
There is 2 4014 engines thats awsome
And 4884. Ed pulls some strings to make that happen.
I saw one in the Sacramento museum! It pushes its tender!
+StellaCharlie Did you see the Sacramento museum show?
Toy Man Television yep! it was cool
Where is that music from? So majestic. Like ol’ 4014!
It’s a rip off if Aaron Copland. Mostly like Appalachian Spring. Done by Richard Band
Toy Man Television the music at 4:22?
Would've been nice to see the UP DDA40X 6936 paired up with the UP BIG BOY! Two of the World's Largest Locomotives ever built paired together!
This was great though. They don’t run the DD 40 much.
Almost 5 years... she’s gonna do it!
this brought me to tears
Happy tears!! What a day!!
+Toy Man Television what was that thing duing the introduction
Cement mixer!! Big one.
Defect!! We don't bite. Hard anyway. But bring one of those little 2 foot tea pots with you!! Love those.
Hope they pull it off by then. But someday...
Just to ask you again.IF the big boy is operational again will he pull only freight, or passenger trains or both?
Pause the video at about 1:52 ... notice something about that SD70M heading that train?
Yup, same Road Number as that deadhead Big Boy. :-)
In Trainstation: The Game On Rails, There is Big Boy, Big Boy Triple, Mountain Pass BIGBOY, BIGBADBOY, Horror (a halloween BIGBOY), BIGBOY Duochrome and many more BIGBOY's
notice the Diesel number boards? 4014 - 4884
+Ray Louis Classic. I love the UP.
yeah, if this was Thomas and friends the big boy and diesel no. 4014 would be fighting all the way there
Heh, I just made that comment before scrolling down and seeing yours. That's an SD70M EMD Loco with the same Road No.
Fitting.
BB4014-YOU STOLE MY NUMBER D4014-AT LEAST I CAN MOVE
Oh man, that is SO awesome! UP, I see what you did there! :P
UP really is a cool railroad! Love their restoration and heritage units. That's how you keep the public looking at you favorably.
I'm starting an N scale model railroad after years being away from the hobby. I'm modeling primarily DME (Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern), with some ICE (Iowa, Chicago, & Eastern, DME's sister railroad), CNW (Chicago & Northwestern, the railroad where DME and ICE's lines came from), and Rock Island. Basically, I'm modeling fallen flags that I grew up seeing, but not in their times... I'm modeling them as if they were still around today, as if the bankruptcies, sales, and mega-mergers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s had never happened. There will be no BNSF, no CSX on my inter-railway connections. UP will just be UP. There will be some inter-rail Chessie System, some Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific, and yeah... UP will be there. Though the big mergers killed a lot of classic road names, UP is more or less a classic, and I'll let their stock roll on my rails.
Idk if anyone noticed this, but did anyone check out the road numbers of the diesels towing the Big Boy? 4014 and 4884 (4-8-8-4).
Cool right? Bet that took some splain'n with the UP management to pull off!!
Video turned out great, thanks for the conversation Friday. Think I saw you in Ogden Sunday. Did you make it there?
Yes, must have been me! Fun day.
Nice and informative.
Thanks!!!
Thanks Looking forward to the return!!
The front Loco is also 4014 but I don't know the class of the front Loco.
The big boy is awesome
It's amazing..
Gee I sure the hell did not know the big boy had radio speakers mounted. You can hear the music all the way to your camera. Yea it had to be the diesels. You can not trust a diesel. They make all kinds of funny noises.
car stereo
+ToyMan *Actually, the Union Pacific contracted with the American Locomotive Company,* located alongside the New York Central tracks at Schenectady, NY, USA, for their 25 builds of 4-8+8-4 Single Expansion Articulated, Class BSA-1; this class was engineered to pull 2,000 tons single-handed over the steep grades of the Wasatch, a situation where the UP's existing 4-8-4 Americans, Classes FEF-1 and FEF-2 (an influence on the NYC's short-lived 4-8-4's, Class S1a), had to doublehead. The UP's existing 4-6+6-4 American Single Expansion Articulateds, Classes CSA-1 through CSA-6, could pull 1,6oo tons single-handed over the Wasatch and were the Class BSA-1's design baseline.
WOW. Good info. One thing I am really struck with is who late they were built. The war delayed the builds to 1944 in the end as I recall. THese were the most "modern" steam locos built in the US. Amazing "Last of the giants for sure"....
+ToyMan *American Locomotive was fourth priority behind arms manufacturers, shipbuilders and automotive manufacturers,* as U. S. Armies in the field needed guns, bayonets, swords, grenades, artillery ammunition, &c. for the fight, plus tanks and trucks to take 'em within striking distance of the enemy. The Navy and Marine Corps also needed ships to take 'em within effective range of islands to be reconquered and enemy task forces to be engaged and sunk. That meant the railroads needed locomotives and rolling stock to get those munitions and vehicles to embarcation for the hot war overseas.
And the odd side effect of seeing a Challenger on the Rio Grande!
that bicyle chain is not jury rigged.......it was put on there by the U.P in the late forties beacuse the lenghth of the rod running the lubericator was prone to breaking......it is the ONLY chain driven device on an American steam locomotive.
It's almost been 5 years ago since big boy was towed to where it needed to be rebuilt.
It’s going back together right now! Looking absolutely amazing too, but all the parts to rebuild still some work to do on the boiler but already there put in the lagging on it! Still on schedule for May of next year. No guarantees however! We are heading up there to take a look at it at the end of May when it will be open to the public
Nice video Toy Man.
+emdman1959 Fun too. We need to get out and shoot a followup. UP has invited us!
We need to crowdfund 9000's restroration
Also at 4:05 That ain't no bicyle chain that MUCH bigger than any bicycle I've seen
I worked at Curry Miller Veneers in the later part of the 80,s when the ground shuuuk under my feet I thought it a earthquake when this big steam engine riled by being pulled and I don't quite know the class of the engine but it was very heavy and everything shake around the mill mean machine yea
Correction. The triplex was bigger the big boy has 2 set of drive wheels the triplex has 3 and the tender has a smoke stack to!
There were I believe three locomotives that were larger of the big boy depending on how are you measure them. At least one was heavier at least one was longer. As you mentioned the triplex had more drive wheels. All of the other locomotives were intended for helper service. The big boy was the only mainline locomotive of that size.
@@ToyManTelevision triplex was a mainline engine to
But I do see what your talking about.. the big boy is easy to fall in love with
rather good quality for 2014
Big boy woot woot!
Looking forward to it's return. Stay tuned..
Coffee Critters it’s toot toot
Bring me up to speed here; is there a significance to the front diesel being 4914? Thanks.
YES!! It's actually 4014, same number as the Big Boy. When the Big Boy is ready they will need to change that Or some workaround. Thats why 844 was 8444 for years. Diesel 844 is now in a museum in Bolder Nevada. (we have a show on that museum) so 844 got it's number back. The other diesel is 4884. Same as the wheel arrangement and class of 4014. Gotta love the UP.
If you look closely at that diesel leading the train it has 4014s Number
Yup!! And the other..?? 4-8-8-4.
Yup
4:06 um I don't think it has been jerry rigged with a bicycle chain, I'm sure that is the regular chain that drives the oil pump.
Yup, my mistake. They did rig some stuff to make this work, but this is normal Big Boy stuff. You can just see it better.
I like how he is talking normally at the beginning as he is being tailgated by a huge concrete mixer. Lol
Oh it still has the whistle that it had when it was in panoma
YUP!!! UP put one of those on the roof of the Salt Lake shops in the 60's to signal the start of the shifts and lunch. LOVE to know where it is!!!!
How many Big Boys are there today.
Hi. 8 Three close together, 2 in Cheyenne and one in Denver. The other 5 are all over. Texas, New England and around.