The Best of Big Boy 2024 Westward Bound! Wyoming - Utah - Nevada 

@@greggwinovich8196 super nice guy. And the hardest worker I’ve ever met. And into 15” gauge! He has an outdoor railroad in Strasbourg Colorado. He’s planning to move it and set up an amazing large railroad after retirement. Where does he find the time? They say if you love what you do you will never work a day in your life. So you could say Ed works 90 hours a week… or Ed has never worked a day in his life.

Big Boy is broken down in Auburn Ca. after an accident with downed tree. I believe we have undercarriage damage.

Awww!!! Thanks!

Best spot east of California.

@@loispadgett6306 good morning! Thanks. Stay well and happy. God bless you too

Sounds great! Beautiful place

@@charlesmcclure5994 hi. And as always thanks!!!!

@@Ken4trains say hi to your dogs. We really want to get a Westie. Sigh. Not sure what the cat would think of that.

@@ToyManTelevision thanks for the heart felt “say hi to your dogs.” Both our Westies Sammie and Lily have been gone for several years. We do have a mutt named Max…we have no idea what he is! Our daughters have a Westie each and love them. Again, thank you for providing great RU-vid content I’ve enjoyed for many years! 😁

Hi. The two UP steam locomotives have some modern equipment installed. Mostly original but the Engeneer has a diesel locomotive control panel to the left of the steam controls. We have several videos on that. And now they have installed the federally mandated PTC computer control into the tender. It has been that those systems are only in the diesel so the steam locomotives couldn’t go anywhere without a diesel. Now they can and for the first two legs of this trip they had no diesel! But it’s needed for range and braking. So it’s back. Anyway a nice small diesel controller to the engineer’s left.

@@robertweldon7909 hi. It’s the side rods. While the bearings are tight and there is no play in anything all that metal clanks like that. Even the D and RG locos clank.

@@ToyManTelevision thanks ToyMan. I had the same observation.

Not sure. They are picking up the passenger cars in Roseville. The cars delivered to Roseville live in Omaha. So sent out? Or already there? Anyway as I understand it they need a certain amount of cars for braking. And they just received a bunch of new cars. So show this off? But mostly I think as they aren’t carrying passengers west why not change things up. Just for fun!!

@@ToyManTelevision thought that may be something along those lines. Maybe next year I’ll be able to head over for a holiday and line it up to see the big boy out and about.

That lens is a problem old TV camera lens. I adapted it for my GH2 just for shooting trains. But the front is bashed and the threads wrecked. A chip in the front glass too. Shows as a dark spot on the video. I have another of these lenses but the internal 2X expansion thing is screwed up. I’d like to find someone to take the front off it and put it on this one. Then I can even put a lens hood on it!

Thanks!!

Ed’s not a UTA guy. He the head of UPs steam program. Anyway I have about 40 minutes of video with him talking about bricks in the fire box and a bunch of other things. I’ll be posting that soon!