Knowing there's enough room for an individual to stand in the firebox really gives you a sense of this behemoth's size. It is a living, breathing beast.
I am Korean. Hello Americans, congratulations on the rebirth of your old Big Boy. The Korean War and later American steam locomotives helped a lot. I am moved by the spirit of continuing your history.
I got to see this live in New Mexico in 2019, and this locomotive is a beast of an engine! When it started moving, I could feel the ground LITERALLY SHAKING FROM 50 METERS AWAY. That engine is truly a sight to see. You could hear the whistle from miles away, almost like a distant call, letting you know it's still alive. And it still has the words "Big Boy" written on the front of it.
@@theblocksmith645 I have absolutely no idea -- I posted it a couple weeks back, I suspect they may have updated the video, but I dont know for sure --thats kinda strange!!!!
Charcoal is incredibly wasteful. The volatile components within the wood are burnt off leaving just the carbon. 1/4 to 1/2 of the original energy is wasted. But all that pales into insignificance when you look at the massive areas of forest needed to grow the trees. Charcoal is literally unsustainable.
From someone who was born just as the steam era ended, I want to thank Ed Dickens and the Union Pacific Steam Team for bringing this magnificent piece of Americana back to life for this generation to see...and the next generation as well. May 4014 ride the rails for years to come!
What an articulate spokesman! I've watched plenty of 4014 videos, but with him standing alongside, it really shows what a monster locomotive that is. I live a quarter mile from UP tracks, maybe two dozen trains a day, including Amtrak. I smile while I cross the grade thinking of how the UP has kept steam alive. Lotsa $$$$$$.
I find it fascinating that Union Pacific experimented with oil on a Big Boy, #4005 from Dec. 1946 to June 1948. It didn't work to their expectations, but proved that a big steam engine like a Big Boy could be fired with oil. With improvements in technology of oil burners, it's neat to see the 4014 use it with style.
I am sure there is a world of difference between using a oil burning Big Boy to haul mile long freight trains up a grade, compared to the 20 or so passenger cars the #4014 pulls.
@@travelingtom923 You bring up an interesting question. Does the oil burning mod produce enough b.t.u. of heat for sustained horsepower demands for pulling a monster freight up the grade? Maybe Ed Dickens might know.
@@A_Bit_of_Thought I am sure it could however there would be a massive black cloud of smoke pouring out the stack. Would be a site to see that is for sure.
@@travelingtom923 While lots of smoke looks pretty, it is an excellent indication that flame temperature and efficiency are suffering. I read somewhere that one of the big problems with burning oil is the wear and tear of the firebox resulting from the higher temperatures of the oil flame.
I was on a steam ship in the Navy back in the 60s. I was a machinist mate so I operated the turbines and all the water pumps and other ancillary equipment. We had 2 boilers in the same space as the engines and they were 2 storys tall. I had little to do with them but the boiler tenders had to avoid dark smoke and only a little white smoke coming out of the stacks or they would hear about it from the "old man." I was told they burned jp5 which is jet fuel.
I thought it was pretty neat originally that it was running on coal just as it did in its hay day. It was enjoyable to see that black smoke shooting from that stack. But I’m just glad she’s restored back to a living piece of history 👍
Spent many days watching the combustion on two Babcock & Wilcox 1200 psi water tube marine boilers. Each had four atomizing burner nozzles. They were equipped with Automatic combustion controls, once dialed in it was just a matter of watching the gauges and occasionally making adjustments to the controls. However, getting them dialed in was like trying to tame two dragons!
I appreciate the talk about the smoke & efficiency. I was a Stationary Boiler Fireman, in a steam generating plant in 1966. That (eliminating the smoke) was part of my job.
The answer is yes. But my job also included; watching the huge bunkers that fed the automatic coal stokers, monortering the air turbine; monortering & performing maintenance on the reciprocating water pumps; greasing the automatic coal stokers, among numerous other tasks.
I really enjoy the technical items and explanations. Tell us more! I would buy a DVD with a detailed description of each piece its function and construction and how it works in 4014, ie.; the forward boiler support guide, center springs and how it was built. Not something you see on every locomotive. Great job guys!
West Coast Railway (doesn't exist anymore) - Victoria Australia, used to run a regular steam service every Saturday from Melbourne to Warrnambool using a former Victorian Railway's restored R class loco that was set up to burn oil, they used recycled sump (engine) oil and I was told (?) they had it mixed with recycled break fluid to get a better burn. This loco R711 is still running special services with one of the rail heritage societies. p.s. Good to see a BigBoy back in action :-)
Nice update, thanks. And wow, we've been waiting waiting waiting for a show of steam in the Great Basin and the Pacific Northwest. Hope you roll through in 2021 sometime. Dying to photograph some steam action running over Donner Pass or along the Feather River route.
*What it’s like standing near a Big Boy, and sitting in the Engineer’s Seat:* For anyone who hasn’t been close to one of these in person, *it’s SO much bigger than it looks.* I walked up to both 4014 on the rails and 4006(?) in Green Bay National Railroad Museum, and just standing near and looking up at the tender, it’s SO HUGE that I felt vertigo like I was going to topple over! It’s physically intimidating, I could feel a primal reaction wanting to escape the area, as if it were a large beast threatening my safety.😳 I felt a similar reaction when I visited the Illinois Rail Museum, which I believe is the largest in North America or perhaps the world, just dozens and dozens of steam locos plus everything else you can possibly think of. Walking inside the largest storage warehouse between several rails all filled with steam locomotives, I had that “gonna tip over” vertigo feeling from most steam locomotives I looked up at. You feel like an ant that could be crushed by one step of an elephant’s foot. On video they look about the size of a semi-trailer driving down the highway, but in reality they seem way larger! Significantly taller and longer, (although I don’t know that for an absolute fact.) I also was allowed to climb up the front and walk atop the high running boards along the boiler of a large high speed CB&Q passenger steam locomotive on display elsewhere, and wow, it’s definitely higher than it looks! A jump from that height even at rest, seems like it would be likely to break your legs. But boy it sure was awesome, always wanted to stand up there since I was a little kid.. The most peculiar thing is sitting in the engineer’s seat of a Big Boy like I did in Green Bay. It’s absolutely ridiculous!!! It’s like sitting in the TRUNK of a stretch limousine and driving down the freeway operating it from that position! It’s almost unbelievable that such a gigantic vehicle pulling tens of thousands of tons of freight, would have virtually zero full forward visibility.👀 Try sticking your head out the window of your house and imagine the facing end of your house is the front of the locomotive, and that’s pretty much what it feels like, just one gigantic forward blind spot. As soon as I got to experience that, instantly I understood why old movies and photos always show the engineer hunched over the armrest, leaning WAY out the window, looking forward. It’s because he’s trying to see where the hell he’s going! 😂 A modern front-view remote-camera would be a total game changer, if obviously not “kosher”.. Also, on any curve, only one side is going to have any effective forward visibility whatsoever. Pretty bizarre to imagine operating this beast blindly and relying completely upon your conductor to relay what he sees ahead out his window. (The cab does have a small tall, narrow rectangular window looking forward you can barely see at top-center of 2:25), but given that a huge ass 100 ft long black boiler obstructs 50% of your view including the tracks straight ahead, it ain’t much!)
Thank you Ed. It's sure nice to hear your voice again. I really enjoy your updates. You explain technical information very well. Thank you for educating and supporting Union Pacific's Railway safety across America. All the best to you and your amazing team in the New Year. Canada.
First time I saw 4014 in my 47 years of living was in 2021 for the New Orleans excursion. I rode the excursion to Plaquemines Parish, and I’m a steam buff, but I took more photos of 4015 than 4014. This is because I grew up with the U50C’s (I was born in 1976) and the 4015 was painted in the 70’s livery of silver truck frames, and green antiglare on the nose roof. When I saw 4015, it brought back so many childhood memories from my childhood, when I once was in the cab of UP 5037 (a U50C). Thanks for bringing back childhood memories with UP 4015!
Not a simple conversion with much thought and design going into a plan that works! Ed really knows the plan and all that goes with it! Great job by all!
This is my first time on this site. Very nice. Wife and I love going to rail artifact sites. Piedmont, WY comes to mind, and the CPRR right of way west of Promontory holds so many stories. I hear-bye elect Thomas Clark Durant as Honorary President of UPRR, and Grenville Dodge as his nemesis! LOL. Kidding. However, those who study the history of the building of UP, are amazed at the times: political, cultural, and economic, of that era. Wife and I would love to attend a future gathering, maybe this May at Ogden, or wherever it will be held, "out west". PS: this video explains a lot, and well-presented. TY!.
What an excellent and informative video. It is so impressive that the UP staff today can still do a successful coal to oil conversion on 70 year old technology.
Nice work Ed. A very clear understandable presentation. I raise my hat to the UP Steam Team - and the company - for restoring one of the most amazing steam engines in the world. May 4014 cover many more miles up and down those grades!!!
I love you guys UP I love your work with trains you make me so proud to know steam trains will never ever be without the steam trains operator we need to keep steam still alive
I want so much to see and ride on this but so for no luck. I love steam trains , took my first ride from SC to CA in 1949, I love them keep running 4014.
What a big beautiful beast! A mechanical masterpiece! I wish I could understand this more thoroughly, especially the "on demand" air flow intake, etc. Im so grateful they have decided to invest to preserve this beast!
Show of hands - who wishes they'd had Ed Dickens as their shop/trade/vocational school instructor??? He is THE embodiment of passion for the craft and lost art of his trade!!
There needs to be a real effort to restore the only remaining Cab Forward. I know it will never happen but considering the historical significance.....it should. Would be amazing to see it rolling down the rails. Back on topic.....thank you very much for the restoration of this Big Boy.
Very cool video, I am a bit shocked how small that burner is alway thought they where bigger ;). Had to smile a bit with all that stone and brick work in the fire box :D.
It is cool they keep this tourist attraction going, but it is very uncool they furloughed many young diesel technicians.. those guys are more important in the long run.
Great praise to UP for keeping the legend of The Big Boy and other famous steam locos alive.Your next object should in my opinion be to bring Southern Pacific railroad Cab forward 4294 back to life.UP owns from what i understand SP nowadays.According to California state railway museums home page the engine is in rather good condition.I quote " Mechanically, the engine is in remarkably good condition;".It would be a great event to recreate the last trip in 1957 in 2027.It's 70 years ago then.
Happy Holidays to U.P. team. The Big Boy, The Legend and Challenger are my favorite just amazing. I wish they could come a little closer to OUR area. Happy Holidays to everyone
From what has been done to the Big Boy firebox is create a focused efficient flame similar to what you find in modern boilers to heat homes and other commercial applications. adjusting the air and fuel mixture with the human touch is just like what a computer would be doing only it is done at the seat of the pants feel and site of the smoke coming out the stacks. I would like to think a lot of engineering and computer work went into redoing that firebox to what it is now. Great work cant wait to see Big Boy back in action in the State of Minnesota
When the Big Boy 4014 came thru Denver on its return to Cheyenne it passed quite near the Forney Museum of Transportation where the Big Boy 4005 resides and it faces north towards as if yearning for home. Indeed it looks out a glassed in wall that was cut into the building so it along other rolling stock could be moved in and as I saw the 4014 go by that you'd wonder if it's whistle could be heard inside the Museum. One could imagined for a moment that the 4005 had steamed up and left with the crew which was lost all those decades ago when it left the tracks and was completing that long ago run it never finished...
I believe when a video is first published as unlisted and then changed to public that will happen. It definitely happens when a creator leaves a comment under a video uploaded early but only scheduled to go public later.
I'm curious to know more about how fuel oil is supplied to the burner. If it's solely using gravity, without a booster pump, does the fuel get pulled into some type of steam ejector during the atomizing process, and from there get pushed to the burner tip? Years ago I ran a Cleaver-Brooks stationary boiler which used underground fuel tankage and booster pumps to supply the burner.
Thank you very much @ Mr. Dickens for explaining this! What I am asking myself is whether, provided good quality oil and a skillful person controlling oil-, steam- and air flow, an external combustion machine like this, in tough daily freight service, would still require the occasional bucket of quartz sand to have its superheater pipes cleaned of soot. Or would there be other, less abrasive methods available nowadays?
Knowing there's enough room for an individual to stand in the firebox really gives you a sense of this behemoth's size. It is a living, breathing beast.
More of a Megalith really.
Awesome
I am Korean. Hello Americans, congratulations on the rebirth of your old Big Boy. The Korean War and later American steam locomotives helped a lot. I am moved by the spirit of continuing your history.
That was a real reality check seeing how large that fire box was when Ed was inside it. DANG!
I got to see this live in New Mexico in 2019, and this locomotive is a beast of an engine! When it started moving, I could feel the ground LITERALLY SHAKING FROM 50 METERS AWAY. That engine is truly a sight to see. You could hear the whistle from miles away, almost like a distant call, letting you know it's still alive. And it still has the words "Big Boy" written on the front of it.
All trains shake the ground
The big boy causes earth quakes
A big boy burning oil is A LITERAL FIRE BREATHING DRAGON
You’re about an American steam locomotive and you’re using communist units to tell distance. That’s just disrespectful.
@@UltraMagaFanyeah, about 150ft.
@@UltraMagaFancommunist 😂😂 you mean metric
@MistressKitty69 made up by communist frogs
Wonderful update, would love to see more technical articles like this in the future
Tim Holmes how did you post this 4 weeks ago when the video was uploaded 17 hours ago
@@theblocksmith645 I have absolutely no idea -- I posted it a couple weeks back, I suspect they may have updated the video, but I dont know for sure --thats kinda strange!!!!
Tim the Time Traveler
@@theblocksmith645 the same glitch happened to me lol
Congrats on time traveling Tim!
Love these locomotives may they forever run the rails
not with oil, oil wont last that long charcoal would make the existence of the steam locomotives that we still have in the world longer
Charcoal is incredibly wasteful. The volatile components within the wood are burnt off leaving just the carbon. 1/4 to 1/2 of the original energy is wasted.
But all that pales into insignificance when you look at the massive areas of forest needed to grow the trees.
Charcoal is literally unsustainable.
@@davidelliott5843 Quite true, he's probably thinking coal. (at least I hope he is)
Many counties are phasing out coal
This comment is older than the video. I'm so confused
From someone who was born just as the steam era ended, I want to thank Ed Dickens and the Union Pacific Steam Team for bringing this magnificent piece of Americana back to life for this generation to see...and the next generation as well. May 4014 ride the rails for years to come!
What an articulate spokesman!
I've watched plenty of 4014 videos, but with him standing alongside, it really shows what a monster locomotive that is.
I live a quarter mile from UP tracks, maybe two dozen trains a day, including Amtrak. I smile while I cross the grade thinking of how the UP has kept steam alive. Lotsa $$$$$$.
We Need More ED the steam shop and the 4014 this year
No, we need more Ed. None of the old guys in a steam shop needs more ED lol
I find it fascinating that Union Pacific experimented with oil on a Big Boy, #4005 from Dec. 1946 to June 1948. It didn't work to their expectations, but proved that a big steam engine like a Big Boy could be fired with oil. With improvements in technology of oil burners, it's neat to see the 4014 use it with style.
I am sure there is a world of difference between using a oil burning Big Boy to haul mile long freight trains up a grade, compared to the 20 or so passenger cars the #4014 pulls.
@@travelingtom923 You bring up an interesting question. Does the oil burning mod produce enough b.t.u. of heat for sustained horsepower demands for pulling a monster freight up the grade? Maybe Ed Dickens might know.
@@A_Bit_of_Thought I am sure it could however there would be a massive black cloud of smoke pouring out the stack. Would be a site to see that is for sure.
@@A_Bit_of_Thought charcoal burns quite hot since the fire doesnt have to waste its energy on evaporating liquids in the material
@@travelingtom923 While lots of smoke looks pretty, it is an excellent indication that flame temperature and efficiency are suffering. I read somewhere that one of the big problems with burning oil is the wear and tear of the firebox resulting from the higher temperatures of the oil flame.
I was on a steam ship in the Navy back in the 60s. I was a machinist mate so I operated the turbines and all the water pumps and other ancillary equipment. We had 2 boilers in the same space as the engines and they were 2 storys tall. I had little to do with them but the boiler tenders had to avoid dark smoke and only a little white smoke coming out of the stacks or they would hear about it from the "old man."
I was told they burned jp5 which is jet fuel.
Merry Christmas to Ed Dickens and the entire team at UP Steam. Thanks for sharing with us.
I thought it was pretty neat originally that it was running on coal just as it did in its hay day. It was enjoyable to see that black smoke shooting from that stack. But I’m just glad she’s restored back to a living piece of history 👍
Spent many days watching the combustion on two Babcock & Wilcox 1200 psi water tube marine boilers. Each had four atomizing burner nozzles. They were equipped with Automatic combustion controls, once dialed in it was just a matter of watching the gauges and occasionally making adjustments to the controls. However, getting them dialed in was like trying to tame two dragons!
I appreciate the talk about the smoke & efficiency. I was a Stationary Boiler Fireman, in a steam generating plant in 1966. That (eliminating the smoke) was part of my job.
Was it your job to literally stand and hand-tune the air/fuel mixture in a steam boiler for 8 hours a day? Or how did it work?
The answer is yes. But my job also included; watching the huge bunkers that fed the automatic coal stokers, monortering the air turbine; monortering & performing maintenance on the reciprocating water pumps; greasing the automatic coal stokers, among numerous other tasks.
You really should see much smoke on a steam locomotive either. Little and often as the UK firemen say.
Thank you for taking care of Big Boy 4014. My favorite train. I hope one day I can see it in action!
I really enjoy the technical items and explanations. Tell us more! I would buy a DVD with a detailed description of each piece its function and construction and how it works in 4014, ie.; the forward boiler support guide, center springs and how it was built. Not something you see on every locomotive. Great job guys!
I could listen to Ed Dickens all day long puts the technical data over so well of any locomotive of topic .. brilliant👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for sharing on how you did this! I look forward to seeing UP 4014 running in 2021!
Love this video! Who would have thought that Ed was also a brick mason! Beautiful craftsmanship!
Boiler mechanics wear many hats.
Haha I too noticed the masonry
West Coast Railway (doesn't exist anymore) - Victoria Australia, used to run a regular steam service every Saturday from Melbourne to Warrnambool using a former Victorian Railway's restored R class loco that was set up to burn oil, they used recycled sump (engine) oil and I was told (?) they had it mixed with recycled break fluid to get a better burn. This loco R711 is still running special services with one of the rail heritage societies.
p.s. Good to see a BigBoy back in action :-)
Nice update, thanks. And wow, we've been waiting waiting waiting for a show of steam in the Great Basin and the Pacific Northwest. Hope you roll through in 2021 sometime. Dying to photograph some steam action running over Donner Pass or along the Feather River route.
This whole project has been such a pleasure to follow.
*What it’s like standing near a Big Boy, and sitting in the Engineer’s Seat:*
For anyone who hasn’t been close to one of these in person, *it’s SO much bigger than it looks.* I walked up to both 4014 on the rails and 4006(?) in Green Bay National Railroad Museum, and just standing near and looking up at the tender, it’s SO HUGE that I felt vertigo like I was going to topple over! It’s physically intimidating, I could feel a primal reaction wanting to escape the area, as if it were a large beast threatening my safety.😳
I felt a similar reaction when I visited the Illinois Rail Museum, which I believe is the largest in North America or perhaps the world, just dozens and dozens of steam locos plus everything else you can possibly think of. Walking inside the largest storage warehouse between several rails all filled with steam locomotives, I had that “gonna tip over” vertigo feeling from most steam locomotives I looked up at. You feel like an ant that could be crushed by one step of an elephant’s foot.
On video they look about the size of a semi-trailer driving down the highway, but in reality they seem way larger! Significantly taller and longer, (although I don’t know that for an absolute fact.)
I also was allowed to climb up the front and walk atop the high running boards along the boiler of a large high speed CB&Q passenger steam locomotive on display elsewhere, and wow, it’s definitely higher than it looks! A jump from that height even at rest, seems like it would be likely to break your legs. But boy it sure was awesome, always wanted to stand up there since I was a little kid..
The most peculiar thing is sitting in the engineer’s seat of a Big Boy like I did in Green Bay. It’s absolutely ridiculous!!! It’s like sitting in the TRUNK of a stretch limousine and driving down the freeway operating it from that position! It’s almost unbelievable that such a gigantic vehicle pulling tens of thousands of tons of freight, would have virtually zero full forward visibility.👀
Try sticking your head out the window of your house and imagine the facing end of your house is the front of the locomotive, and that’s pretty much what it feels like, just one gigantic forward blind spot.
As soon as I got to experience that, instantly I understood why old movies and photos always show the engineer hunched over the armrest, leaning WAY out the window, looking forward. It’s because he’s trying to see where the hell he’s going! 😂 A modern front-view remote-camera would be a total game changer, if obviously not “kosher”..
Also, on any curve, only one side is going to have any effective forward visibility whatsoever. Pretty bizarre to imagine operating this beast blindly and relying completely upon your conductor to relay what he sees ahead out his window. (The cab does have a small tall, narrow rectangular window looking forward you can barely see at top-center of 2:25), but given that a huge ass 100 ft long black boiler obstructs 50% of your view including the tracks straight ahead, it ain’t much!)
Thanks for sharing Ed, and Merry Christmas to you and all the Steam Team.
Thanks, Ed!! Incredible work over the last seven years.
Great video thank you at so many levels for the technical the history and the time you spent rebuilding this glorious machine
Thank you Ed. It's sure nice to hear your voice again. I really enjoy your updates. You explain technical information very well. Thank you for educating and supporting Union Pacific's Railway safety across America. All the best to you and your amazing team in the New Year. Canada.
Thanks for the breakdown guys! Love the firebox setup.
Thanks, Ed, for your great explanation of this conversion. And thanks for your work with UP in keeping these great machines going.
Thanks for the inside photographs Ed!
First time I saw 4014 in my 47 years of living was in 2021 for the New Orleans excursion. I rode the excursion to Plaquemines Parish, and I’m a steam buff, but I took more photos of 4015 than 4014. This is because I grew up with the U50C’s (I was born in 1976) and the 4015 was painted in the 70’s livery of silver truck frames, and green antiglare on the nose roof. When I saw 4015, it brought back so many childhood memories from my childhood, when I once was in the cab of UP 5037 (a U50C). Thanks for bringing back childhood memories with UP 4015!
Incredible. Really enjoy these type of videos.
Not a simple conversion with much thought and design going into a plan that works! Ed really knows the plan and all that goes with it! Great job by all!
This is my first time on this site. Very nice. Wife and I love going to rail artifact sites. Piedmont, WY comes to mind, and the CPRR right of way west of Promontory holds so many stories. I hear-bye elect Thomas Clark Durant as Honorary President of UPRR, and Grenville Dodge as his nemesis! LOL. Kidding. However, those who study the history of the building of UP, are amazed at the times: political, cultural, and economic, of that era. Wife and I would love to attend a future gathering, maybe this May at Ogden, or wherever it will be held, "out west". PS: this video explains a lot, and well-presented. TY!.
You should make a vid of a day in life of a train driver driving a uonion pacific locomotive
There are tons out there
A-MEN!!
Wake up CMS BUMPS YOU
@@CTTrains193 I’ve not found one
onion pacific
What an excellent and informative video. It is so impressive that the UP staff today can still do a successful coal to oil conversion on 70 year old technology.
These videos are priceless. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!
Master Engineering Genius Ed Dickens, you're a rockstar!!!!!
Nice work Ed. A very clear understandable presentation. I raise my hat to the UP Steam Team - and the company - for restoring one of the most amazing steam engines in the world. May 4014 cover many more miles up and down those grades!!!
Awesome video! I love steam engines. They are so majestic. May we always have this living history.
These guys have the best steam locomotive in their workshop! Jeez Big Boy is massive
I love you guys UP I love your work with trains you make me so proud to know steam trains will never ever be without the steam trains operator we need to keep steam still alive
Thanks for your donation UP. I've worked at that Silvis shop for 24 years...
Working on Frisco 4500 which always been a oil burner I'm taking notes, thanks Ed
Great video. Thank you for sharing the news.
Happy New Year, Steam Team!
Love these videos. Wish there were more!
Just saw Big Boy today 8-12-21 in McAlester OK. Very impressive
Great video, Ed and the team sure know their business.
Great Video Mr. Ed. Very beautiful steam locomotive. All hail Big Boy X4014
Well done Ed. I love what you do.
its nice to see old Steam powered stuff running here in Australia on the Murry river we still have a few steam powered boats like the PS Melbourne.
what a magnificent machine hope to see it in person someday
Great Format and Subject! Hope to see more!
Just an absolutely beautiful locomotive.
I want so much to see and ride on this but so for no luck. I love steam trains , took my first ride from SC to CA in 1949, I love them keep running 4014.
Great video and update. Thanks!
What a big beautiful beast! A mechanical masterpiece!
I wish I could understand this more thoroughly, especially the "on demand" air flow intake, etc.
Im so grateful they have decided to invest to preserve this beast!
Appreciate this update. Thank you.
Awesome video. I love the tech videos that are educational!
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021
Show of hands - who wishes they'd had Ed Dickens as their shop/trade/vocational school instructor??? He is THE embodiment of passion for the craft and lost art of his trade!!
There needs to be a real effort to restore the only remaining Cab Forward. I know it will never happen but considering the historical significance.....it should. Would be amazing to see it rolling down the rails. Back on topic.....thank you very much for the restoration of this Big Boy.
Very cool video, I am a bit shocked how small that burner is alway thought they where bigger ;). Had to smile a bit with all that stone and brick work in the fire box :D.
Very nice Ed! Great update!
Great tech update. So cool that UP is keeping these historic beasts running. I’d love to see 4014 come back through Roseville again.
It is cool they keep this tourist attraction going, but it is very uncool they furloughed many young diesel technicians.. those guys are more important in the long run.
Great video of locomotives 🚂! 😘🚂😀 Mike from Missouri
Great praise to UP for keeping the legend of The Big Boy and other famous steam locos alive.Your next object should in my opinion be to bring Southern Pacific railroad Cab forward 4294 back to life.UP owns from what i understand SP nowadays.According to California state railway museums home page the engine is in rather good condition.I quote " Mechanically, the engine is in remarkably good condition;".It would be a great event to recreate the last trip in 1957 in 2027.It's 70 years ago then.
Thank you very much for this video, sounds pretty cool. I am really going to miss the smoke and the smell of the coal.
Wait are you saying it was burning coal all of its operation the past two years?
Thanks Ed! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and the Steam Shop staff!
Happy Holidays to U.P. team. The Big Boy, The Legend and Challenger are my favorite just amazing. I wish they could come a little closer to OUR area. Happy Holidays to everyone
From what has been done to the Big Boy firebox is create a focused efficient flame similar to what you find in modern boilers to heat homes and other commercial applications. adjusting the air and fuel mixture with the human touch is just like what a computer would be doing only it is done at the seat of the pants feel and site of the smoke coming out the stacks. I would like to think a lot of engineering and computer work went into redoing that firebox to what it is now. Great work cant wait to see Big Boy back in action in the State of Minnesota
When the Big Boy 4014 came thru Denver on its return to Cheyenne it passed quite near the Forney Museum of Transportation where the Big Boy 4005 resides and it faces north towards as if yearning for home. Indeed it looks out a glassed in wall that was cut into the building so it along other rolling stock could be moved in and as I saw the 4014 go by that you'd wonder if it's whistle could be heard inside the Museum. One could imagined for a moment that the 4005 had steamed up and left with the crew which was lost all those decades ago when it left the tracks and was completing that long ago run it never finished...
love these updates.
Awesome! 4014 is so huge!
Always has been😂
The only thing bigger was the pen railroads triple boiggie steam train (sorry terrible grammer)
That's so cool! I'm so glad 4014 was restored. Your awsome union Pacific
Man, seeing the engine behind you really gives scale how big she is!
Thx Ed for explaining the oil conversion
Great info...thank you!
Excellent video
Great video. Hope there will be a "Depot Days" next year!!
This video is less than a week old but has comments from over 1 month ago. I am very confused by this.
Ah, General Kenobi
The video hit 88mph and time traveled
I believe when a video is first published as unlisted and then changed to public that will happen. It definitely happens when a creator leaves a comment under a video uploaded early but only scheduled to go public later.
Da gosto ver essa locomotiva orgulho de um povo de valoriza sua história
this is sooo cool! ive dreamt of seeing a real life steam engine since i was real little. it would be a dream come true to see one go by.
Thanks my Fireman. Never once found my engine cold.
Fascinating content!
Awesome insights. No matter if oil or coal, it sure kicks out a lot of black smoke!
If it's throwing black smoke, that's down to incompetent firing.
Excellent information. Thanks!
Great info, Thanks
It was amazing to see it came through my town
I'm curious to know more about how fuel oil is supplied to the burner. If it's solely using gravity, without a booster pump, does the fuel get pulled into some type of steam ejector during the atomizing process, and from there get pushed to the burner tip? Years ago I ran a Cleaver-Brooks stationary boiler which used underground fuel tankage and booster pumps to supply the burner.
Interesting stuff hopefully there will be more in a similar vein
This was great... More, please...and longer be even more better...
Very good presentation.
The "no smoke" is kind of sad, but so thankful to see her on the rails.
Exhaust opacity is a thing, for better or for worse.
Thank you for improving the camera!
really neato stuff. gotta check this here post out when the opportunity arises!
Explained very well!!!
Thank you very much @ Mr. Dickens for explaining this! What I am asking myself is whether, provided good quality oil and a skillful person controlling oil-, steam- and air flow, an external combustion machine like this, in tough daily freight service, would still require the occasional bucket of quartz sand to have its superheater pipes cleaned of soot. Or would there be other, less abrasive methods available nowadays?