Loved it. I try to visit local museums and this was a fantastic surprise to come across. Great museum and everyone was so helpful. My buddy saw 4014 leave Poomona Ca and he recognized the Big Boy blood line as soon as I sent the pics. It was shocking to see this in person. Thank you.
I got to see this monster of an engine for my birthday earlier this year. After going through the cars, planes, and bikes, I got to go into the train pit area. I felt like an ant standing next to it. The sheer size and length of the engine was astonishing. And to think that such a locomotive was involved in a serious wreck was mind boggling. It is such a magnificent beauty and a marvel of engineering back in the 1940's.
When the Forney Museum was moved from the old Denver Tramway Building by Confluence Park to its present location the 4005 was originally to be cut into three pieces to get it there. But fortunately the plan was changed after word got out and it's rail equipment made its way along a temporary track that hopscotched its way beside the Platte River with the Big Boy in the lead. Me and my nephew volunteered for several weeks getting what remained out and we even figured a way to get a twin engine plane out of a large door with one wing still attached. It was quite an enterprise as we pulled horse drawn carriages, carried wax figures, and even loaded its smallest locomotive from a garden layout onto a waiting trailer. One cannot get a sense of how gigantic a Big Boy is until you stand beside the 4005 and growing up it was my favorite place to go, and I finally was taller than its driving wheels but it still towered over you none the less. I always felt a bit responsible for the 4005 because my letter to the editor about it possibly being taken apart with a cutting torch was printed soon after it was announced that the museum was being moved but not how it the 500 ton Big Boy would leave there. The Forney family which started it has made it possible that the Museum will continue well into the foreseeable future and is the largest indoor Rail Road/Transportation Museum you can visit nearly every day of the year.
Richard - Thanks for your efforts to move #4005 to the new museum. Throughout the 1980s I saw the old Forney Museum through my RTD bus window regularly before it became a terrific REI store. I finally toured the museum at its new location in July 2019 with a steam engine-crazy uncle. Wow! What a fantastic museum. I will return with my cycling buddies and to see #4005 again. What an impressive monster. Maybe some day I will get to see #4014 in action. Marc Frank, Westminster, CO (not related to Al Frank of the Forney Museum.)
Big Boy no. 4005 has interesting personal operating history due to it's derailment in 1953, this locomotive is an impressive representative of railroad equipment that operated back during the steam era.
If the question is, will it be restored to operating condition, the answer is almost certainly no. it will continue to stay at forney. They did use a couple parts off of it for 4014 but I highly doubt anything else will be done with it.
@@CoreytheATSFConnie her whistle was stolen and put on another engine, it has since been taken off. I am aware of the whole story and who was responsible (I won’t name names), but at this point the original whistle has either been sold for profit by the person who stole it or is sitting in his garage in California. We’re in the works of getting a replacement.
4005 did get in an accident, and was retired from service, but was never scrapped. Many of the big boys, 17 in fact, were scrapped, meaning that all their parts and pieces were either melted down or sold. If 4005 had been scrapped, it would have turned into a pile of twisted scrap metal like many of the other big boys.
Loved it. I try to visit local museums and this was a fantastic surprise to come across. Great museum and everyone was so helpful. My buddy saw 4014 leave Poomona Ca and he recognized the Big Boy blood line as soon as I sent the pics. It was shocking to see this in person. Thank you.
I got to see this monster of an engine for my birthday earlier this year. After going through the cars, planes, and bikes, I got to go into the train pit area. I felt like an ant standing next to it. The sheer size and length of the engine was astonishing. And to think that such a locomotive was involved in a serious wreck was mind boggling. It is such a magnificent beauty and a marvel of engineering back in the 1940's.
When the Forney Museum was moved from the old Denver Tramway Building by Confluence Park to its present location the 4005 was originally to be cut into three pieces to get it there. But fortunately the plan was changed after word got out and it's rail equipment made its way along a temporary track that hopscotched its way beside the Platte River with the Big Boy in the lead. Me and my nephew volunteered for several weeks getting what remained out and we even figured a way to get a twin engine plane out of a large door with one wing still attached. It was quite an enterprise as we pulled horse drawn carriages, carried wax figures, and even loaded its smallest locomotive from a garden layout onto a waiting trailer. One cannot get a sense of how gigantic a Big Boy is until you stand beside the 4005 and growing up it was my favorite place to go, and I finally was taller than its driving wheels but it still towered over you none the less. I always felt a bit responsible for the 4005 because my letter to the editor about it possibly being taken apart with a cutting torch was printed soon after it was announced that the museum was being moved but not how it the 500 ton Big Boy would leave there. The Forney family which started it has made it possible that the Museum will continue well into the foreseeable future and is the largest indoor Rail Road/Transportation Museum you can visit nearly every day of the year.
Richard - Thanks for your efforts to move #4005 to the new museum. Throughout the 1980s I saw the old Forney Museum through my RTD bus window regularly before it became a terrific REI store. I finally toured the museum at its new location in July 2019 with a steam engine-crazy uncle. Wow! What a fantastic museum. I will return with my cycling buddies and to see #4005 again. What an impressive monster. Maybe some day I will get to see #4014 in action. Marc Frank, Westminster, CO (not related to Al Frank of the Forney Museum.)
I wonder if there’s footage of 4005’s move
I actually saw this locomotive myself on a summer trip I took eight years ago
Big Boy no. 4005 has interesting personal operating history due to it's derailment in 1953, this locomotive is an impressive representative of railroad equipment that operated back during the steam era.
What will become of big boy 4005
If the question is, will it be restored to operating condition, the answer is almost certainly no. it will continue to stay at forney. They did use a couple parts off of it for 4014 but I highly doubt anything else will be done with it.
@@carlenger9707yeah, maybe they could put her whistle on another engine
@@CoreytheATSFConnie her whistle was stolen and put on another engine, it has since been taken off. I am aware of the whole story and who was responsible (I won’t name names), but at this point the original
whistle has either been sold for profit by the person who stole it or is sitting in his garage in California. We’re in the works of getting a replacement.
@@carlenger9707 ah ok
this train is retired and scrapped and is out of service the UP 4005 derailed in red desert wyoming at 9:15 AM
at 27th of april 1953
@@veniciocaldas1514 This is a museum
It survived
How in the world do you think this was filmed
4005 did get in an accident, and was retired from service, but was never scrapped. Many of the big boys, 17 in fact, were scrapped, meaning that all their parts and pieces were either melted down or sold. If 4005 had been scrapped, it would have turned into a pile of twisted scrap metal like many of the other big boys.
Well only 25 were built it wouldn't be a surprise if all of them were scrapped
Good job on UP and the buyers of the locomotives for keeping 8 of them around!
IN FACT THAT DERAIL