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For what it's worth, I hope you don't just open the blowdowns and depressurize to 0. (If you don't, then just disregard the following.) I figure you probably need to get packed up and on the road, but that's a lot of thermal stress to induce. I'm a Professional Engineer, Senior Nuclear Reactor Operator, and state Licensed Boiler Operator. I've also been a locomotive Fireman and Engineer. If you blowdown from 100 psig to 0, you're dropping from 125 deg F as fast as the valves will allow. For boilers of that complexity, you never want to go over 100 deg F per hour. Again, if it was just my perception that the steam pressure was falling because of the video and my garbage ears, then disregard.
The Big Boy was NOT the most powerful. In early 1900 the Pennsylvania RR had a locomotive with 167,000 pounds of tractive effort, 30k more than the Big Boy has
If this set ever comes available again, it's mine. She deserves to run at train mountain lmao. It'd be CRAZY work to get her back to 7.5 inch gauge though.
la grande,immensa,mastodontica,gigantesca,intramontabile,ed indistruttibile,big boy rimane ed rimarra' la mia preferita ma c'è chi dice che sviluppa 61,300 CV oppure 7000 CV addirittura nel cartone animato del galaxy railwais ne sviluppa addirittura bensì 20,000 CV vapore!?
In hope that someone sees this comment after nearly 5 Years: Can Anyone Provide some sort of Contact data to the Builders/Owners of this Model Big Boy?
That's some pretty bad luck there. They named it after the one that crashed and killed 3 people. At least put the name of the three crewmen that died on the original.
RIP Mike...I didn't know you, but I'll bless you nonetheless Mate!! May your boiler always be full of steam & the tracks ahead always clear & straight. GOD BLESS from Texas!!
The locomotive was built by Severn Lamb in Straford-upon-Avon, England. A group of friends and I were able to visit their workshops in 1982 and saw 4005 almost complete up close and personal. It's a seriously impressive machine.
The level of detail on this model is unbelievable, up to the exact copies of the butterfly fire doors and the shutters over the stack. No concessions have been made to improve ease of operation as a model, all is almost to the exact scale. In operation the sound of the exhaust and the whistle match perfect to the impression of mass and power the model makes.
If a steam locomotive can burn diesel then we can bring then back. all we have to do is attach is diesel generator to the front of the locomotive which powers the trucks on the locomotive and the trucks on the tender and the truck's on the generator to give the locomotive more strength and the fuel from the tender will be burned by the generator and Firebox. I know this comment has no context of the video but I just decided to point it out.
Fun fact check; diesel burners are blasphemous. Gods trains are coal burners, they have what is called a bellows, that's what makes an authentic choochoo train go 'chooch' I must now place a fact check on everything, a blanket fact check that covers all fuel and steam false information, misinformation, disinformation and fake news.
