That whistle.....oh...my....God....that hauntingly beautiful whistle. Bittersweet.... My father LOVED trains and he passed that love, in a smaller degree, to me. R. I. P. Dad and Mom 😳😢😊
My family has recorded 300 years of service working for the UPRR dating from 1910 at Cheyenne Wyoming working as stokers, engine cleaner, my father ran the turn table in the 50,s, my father also appears in the video , last of the of the steam giants, he is pictured filling the big boy with water, my aunts worked cleaning the passenger cars during the war, at present my son works as an engineer in Texas and New Mexico . my wife and I travel to wherever big boy stops during its tours.
"But whatever locomotive progress shall put at the head of tomorrow's train, the rumble and roar of Big Boy will seem still to echo from the high country of southern Wyoming." - "Last of the Giants", 1960
Living next to the train tracks sucks except for the times I get to see this bad boy drive by my house! I live in the desert and I can hear that whistle for miles away and I know big boys coming!
" Old School" hooked up an roll'n!!!!! As a kid in the late 50's My granddad was a retired conductor from the Galeton Pa. area. turn table and round house were still there. Got to climb on a few, at toss some coal into the firebox. I could not even touch the top of those big wheels from the ground!
What a fantastic sight it is to see such a large "articulated" steam locomotive operating at high speed, they used to pull heavy freight trains which restricted them to lower speeds. Great to see the UP 4014 back in service in the 21st century.
4014 can't do 80 mph; she was built as a freight locomotive & has small radius driver wheels designed to get very heavy trains moving. I calculate that was about 50 mph. But, as you say...still very, very nice to watch. 844 was built as a passenger locomotive and she has large driver wheels; she can do 75-80mph on a good day.
@@davidmeyer6401 challengers repeatedly went 70-75 on passenger trains in the period and in excursions with the 3985. a 4000 was rated for 80 and routinely did 60-70 on trains not on mountain grades.
The father with the baby in his arms will share a memory of seeing that magnificent beast go by at full speed blowing its hauntingly beautiful whistle.
I've only seen one Big Boy before in a transportation museum, and that was back when I was a child. Got to climb up in the cab and look around, what an awesome experience. I would love to experience what these folks did, even better take a ride being pulled by one.
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This thing is an absolute beast! Bloody HELL! I am surprised it does not change the rotation of the earth a fraction of a degree. Maximum speed 80 mph (130 km/h) Power output 6,290 hp (4,690 kW) @ tender drawbar Tractive effort 138,240 lbf (614.9 kN)
Folks, do the math. 13 seconds to cross. Calculate length of train , /divide by 13. multiply by 60 and then by 60. That's feet per hour. Divide again by 5280. Its high school algebra.
Some years ago, the Flying Scotsman had its gauge reconfigured soas to take part in a tour of Australia. I really wish that Union Pacific could do the same with Big Boy.
One thing that spools so many of these videos (and by no means the fault of they who make the recording) is the locomotive has to constantly sound its horn. One of the joys of these beasts is hearing the cylinders doing their work.
I heard it in Wheaton Illinois maybe 12 years ago on the UP tracks. I also heard it on the Burlington Northern tracks I drove there's a half mile from my house is on a Saturday otherwise I was working and you could right there just the it made the ground shake. 2000 pounds per ton would be 500 tons. The big boy was mammoth.❤😎
The wheels took 9 frames to make a complete rotation. Assuming a framerate of 30 fps, and with a driver wheel diameter of 68 inches, the math boils down to 59 feet per second, or around 40 mph. If the framerate is 25 fps, then it would be 34 mph. I'm guessing it's the former instead of the latter.
@@localpumpkin5970 you are completely incorrect. Union Pacific does not own any modern 6 axle locomotives that are able to provide head and power also known as HEP. If you watch the video you will notice a car in the train with louvers on the side of it. That is a generator car that has a Diesel Jen sit in there that provides the 480 V power to the coaches. Diesel locomotive cannot produce this power. Your comment that you know this because you come from a family that runs stations has no application here. And the fact you referred to the coaches as “carriages“ shows that you’re not from the US. Because no US railroader would ever refer to passenger coaches as “carriages. That’s a UK term
