Big Boy steam locomotive

[skfullgun]

I tried to get the video to upload but no results.
Most of the effect is lost without the sound of the grand entrance!

 

[cycleguy2300]

Its HUGE!!!

Lived a stones throw from the tracks in Wellborn growing up and saw it several times and got to ride it once.



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[skfullgun]

Its HUGE!!!

Lived a stones throw from the tracks in Wellborn growing up and saw it several times and got to ride it once.



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Envious that you got to ride it. How did you swing that?

 

[cycleguy2300]

Mid/late 90s it was NB and stopped in College Station. We ran into another family we knew there. We heard we could buy tickets so we did and took our friend with us and his mom picked us up in Waco (or Temple, I dont remember...)

It was a cool ride and tons of folks at all the crossings waving.

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[skfullgun]

I didn’t realize there was already a thread on this.

Mods, merge if appropriate!

@benenglish

 

[majormadmax]

I've been on Big Boy No. 4023 at Kenefick Park in Omaha, it's unbelievable how large these engines are!!

Centennial No. 6900 on the left is the largest and most powerful diesel-electric locomotive ever built!

Big Boy No. 4023 is the world's largest steam locomotive!

 

[skfullgun]

Too cool! I never knew that about Kenefick Park!

 

[ILexpatriot]

We sat at a rural crossing North of Navasota. We got there more than an hour early, and she was more than a half hour late. She was making a good 55-60mph by calibrated eyeball. After she went by, the 20? Cars at that crossing meandered into town to see her parked downtown. Since she came in from the north, they had to close the main street for quite awhile since her tail crossed it. After about 30 min off she went.
For anyone going to see her in the next few trips. It seems that the schedule is merely a suggestion. And the "tracker" of their website is herky jerky at best. It freezes then updates miles at a time.
So go early, and don't necessarily count on the tracker.

 

[Coiled]

 

[Dermako]

Momma and I gonna run down to West on Wednesday for the whistle stop. The Ft. Worth stop is only about 25-30 minutes away but my tolerance for urban maggots ain’t real high. Besides, by going to West we can get a great sandwich and some great sugar free dietary supplements

 

[ILexpatriot]

 

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[baboon]

Being the skeptic that I am, I figure this is just propaganda for the Union Pacific. MY guess the as a whole have a pretty big carbon footprint. Not the a carbon footprint means much to me, but just look at all the halfwits with their green agenda. I'm really that little troll Greta Thunberg hasn't shown up yo bitch & cry that we need solar powered trains.

 

[Army 1911]

I plan to see it in Ft. Worth this Friday as early as possible. I want to photograph the mechanics of it.

 

[ILexpatriot]

I plan to see it in Ft. Worth this Friday as early as possible. I want to photograph the mechanics of it.

The last 2 pics I posted are from my BIL in Houston. It seems the crowds there aren't a lot worse than we saw out in Navasota. So, maybe you can get in close, he did. I didn't try to fight through the crowd.

 

[WhiteLightning]

Love them Big Boys. When I was a boy I got to see the Lehigh Valley Black Diamond. She was sweet with her streamlined sheet metal covering the boiler.