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This is the Big Boy #4004 in Cheyenne, Wyoming

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Radley James ~rjthefox

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16 years ago

that's impressive. I've always wanted to see one, but so far the closest I've come is a DM&IR 2-8-8-4, a Mallet I think.

Railhound678 ~newgeorgiarr

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16 years ago

big son of a bitch. I'll never forget standing next to the one in St.Louis (it's in my gallery I think) and I don't know how ALCO and UP pulled it off but they did

Dusty33 ~dusty33

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16 years ago

Actually out side of its ungodly size its a fairly conventional steam engine :P They just made everything bigger xD

Railhound678 ~newgeorgiarr

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16 years ago

yep UP had a reputation for running some of the biggest locomotives on the face of the planet. plus the fact that these could hit 80 mph on a good day makes them all the more admirable

Dusty33 ~dusty33

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16 years ago

Heh, I really like some of the oddities though. I forgot which line did it but thier was a tripple 4-8-8-8-4 mallet built :P

Railhound678 ~newgeorgiarr

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16 years ago

the Erie built that it was called a Triplex. it was a 2-8-8-8-2 but really it was a 2-8-8-0 with a 0-8-2 powered tender

Dusty33 ~dusty33

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16 years ago

Thats the one I'm thinking of. Its firebox just couldn't provide the steam pressure for that many valves and it pretty much withered on the vine :(

Varinki ~varinki

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14 years ago

It probably didn’t help that only half the exhaust steam was used to create draught.

Dusty33 ~dusty33

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14 years ago

Wow, old post xD Yeah the whole thing was just kind of a flop. Some one also built a steam turbine driven engine. It just provided absolutely no benefit over any other power type.

Varinki ~varinki

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14 years ago

There were a few successful turbine locomotives that I know of the British one ran for more than 400,000 miles of relatively trouble free running and a few in Scandinavia that ran for years.

Dusty33 ~dusty33

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14 years ago

Yeah it worked fine. But the railroad just couldn't find any justification for more of them.

ChubbyJosephine ~chubbyjosephine

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16 years ago

The Big Boy! Oh my god do I want to see one in real life!

Doopliss ~doopliss

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15 years ago

Man.... I wish Cheyenne would bring that Big Boy back into operation... It'd be awesome to see one of those giants thundering down the line...

microbuss ~microbuss

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8 years ago

yeah but #4014 from California is gonna be reactivated in a few years
So this will make 3 Big Boys within a 100 miles of each other
the other one being #4004's sister #4005 which is at the Forney Museum in Denver

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