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Big Boy 4014 First Test Run
Last night they took Big Boy for its first test sequence. Left Cheyenne to Greeley ~50 miles. I understand the run was limited to max of 25 MPH. Generally you would want to keep it under that until the side rod bushing were broken in...Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jt4_Hiq_rQ
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What is it about locomotives from that era? Simply cool.
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Another view!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpaKHiyvRo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nIawf-FK8M
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Made my day. Absolutely made my day... thank you so much for posting this.
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Boy and their BIG toys to the extreme. Cool.
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Glad you liked it Jeff!
I'm leaving Wednesday to Ogden to see it and go to the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Summit. Big Boy and 844 will double head to Ogden for the ceremony! Bob
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Such a great sight to see!
Always liked trains. But one question...who's the drunk person filming the first video? It actually gave me vertigo. 
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I had the opportunity to ride behind a similar Northern class locomotive back in what must have been the early '90's. The Southern Pacific 4449 was up here in our area, so my wife and then maybe four year old son took a dinner ride down the Yakima River Valley from Ellensburg to Yakima. Or maybe he was only three... At any rate, somewhere tucked away in an old photo album I have photos of us sitting on the locomotive. Priceless memories... 
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Too cool. One of our engineers is currently in NM getting checked out as a steam locomotive engineer, after which point he will get to drive the train on the main line.
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Camera operator jumps when it blow the horn. Sweet.
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I love those old steam engines.
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When people dream of winning the lottery,
I dream of restoring old locomotives, and when the railways that originally ran them won't consider running them on their own mainlines for XXXXX reasons.... buying out the railways and using the steam engines as my own mid 20th century toyota corolla's.... ( and hauling along 20 or so passenger cars for the ride! ) 
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- - 0 - sure sounds different from a steam whistle rather than air horns (I had to listen twice to make sure that's what he was signaling)
Go Dawg, I sure do want to thank you for posting all these updates and videos. That train is magnificent. And it looks just brand spanking new, too.
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Thanks Oberst...
Watch this great video!...This has some great footage. lengthy but high quality! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7Q27cIEvo
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My grandfather was an agent for the Santa Fe RR. If I was in his car on a road paralleling the tracks and there was a train, he knew the 'code' to honk in his Buick Roadmaster and the engineer would blow his whistle back at us. You can imagine the grin on my 10 YO face.
As a kid I saw the end of the steam era change over to diesel. They took on a modern look towards the end: 
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