Grew up in Citrus Heights in the 50’s when theses beauties were still being used to haul freight over Donner. The whistles were heard at our house throughout the night. What a memorable sound. My dad would take us to the “Hump” to watch the boxcars roll down through a series of switches to make up a train. Then we got a TV😅
Great video man! Looks like you know a lot of niche spots on Donner, every place I filmed it was crowded as shit, except for Emigrant Gap (video is on my channel)
So they don't overstress the boiler on the Big Boy. Steam locomotives need frequent and expensive maintenance. The more they are used, the more expensive it becomes.
So they don't overstress the boiler on the Big Boy. Steam locomotives need frequent and expensive maintenance. The more they are used, the more expensive it becomes.
I took a picture of this exact train on the turnstile at the Pomona fairgrounds before they carried at across the country for restoration. This is awesome
Hi Aaron would you be interested in adding to your video I captured some decent drone footage of it in Colfax and Truckee I don’t have enough footage to make a nice video like your but I think k with what I got and what you already have can make it even better!
Shame I couldn't get any videos of it. I was already in Tahoe and was trying to get some pictures on my way down, but decided to just leave when I heard it got stuck in Auburn. By the time I got to Roseville, it was already in Colfax, so no videos for me
I saw this as a kid at the LA County fairgrounds in the 1960'/70's. Then when I heard they were going to take it and refurbish it I went to the fairgrounds to see it before it left. It was sitting next to the mainline as they waited to make the final track connections and move it. Took more than a few pics of it, impressive. I have never seen it running in person but videos are always nice!
Wonderful program. I wonder how the 4014 compares to the big cab forward on static display at the Sacramento railway museum. I'd like to see it restored to running condition and put to the test with 4014. It's huge.
25yrs or so ago I was driving to/from SLC when this loco was headed to Promontory for the Golden Spike Commemorative ceremony! Pretty cool to see her again all these years later! Thanks to all for helping keep history alive!
4014 was at Promontory a few years ago with 844, but there is no way it was there in 2001. 25 years ago, 4014 was at the LA County Fairgrounds on display as part of the Rail Giants Museum. UP 3985, a Challenger class locomotive, made an appearance at Promontory in 1994ish, perhaps that is the locomotive you saw?
As Biden Boy exited what I assume was a snow shed, something around the smoke stack was lowered to what looked like a normal Big Boy stack. Was that device to allow more smoke out it the locomotive once it cleared the shed?
