UNION PACIFIC BIG BOY
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 climbing the west slope of Donner Pass heading eastbound to Sparks, NV. What a show she puts on!! Locations include Dutch Flat CA, Yuba Pass CA and Norden CA, just west of Donner Summit.
Incredible stalk talk and steam action!!
From the foreigner from country with smaller less powerful locomotives - this what America is all about - bigger, better, more powerful.
Well it was built for a purpose..as I'm sure the foreign loco's were.. not much point building something purely to boast that's overkill and very expensive to run sot needed to pay it's way as well...love Big Boy! 😎🦘
Good luck 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇦
G'day mate from Australia. That's the heavy metal music, old school style. She sounded awesome, heavy grades and decent scenery.
Weve had a Big Boy, Challenger, J and A. Time for a N&W Y or C&O H8.
What a magnificent machine
BEAUTIFUL..👍
I would love to have a seat in one of those dome cars.
I’m loving every second of this!
Great Video, You know the best areas to film, We saw it fly by in the flat NV desert.
Bear in mind the Big Boys were always the exceptions to the rule, the departures from the norm. People from abroad should be told that.
Big Boy's stack talk is surprisinglly subdued and muted except when under maximum tractive effort.
Old boy is barely breaking a sweat.
Super nice video :)
Thank you very much!
This is beautiful can’t imagine an EV loci 🤷🏻♂️
This is a passenger train?
Great video🤩!
Thank you!!
Wow nice video n I scrb you 👍❤
Nice! +1
Really, really beautiful !!! I hear the diesel loc engine : does it help big boy or is it just in case of failure ?
It's really there for it's dynamic brakes plus I'm not sure if the Big Boy has a full I-ETMS train control system set up on her or just the screens.
How I wish it would come easy just once like the 3985 did...please
East...not easy
Why is the diesel under load in all these canyon climbing videos? 4014 could do this alone. Does anyone know why the diesel is helping?
I find it curious that Union Pacific had those engines designed to haul real tonnage trains over long grades WITHOUT HELPERS and yet they don't trust it to haul much lighter trains without a diesel helper! Oh some have said they're on there only for dynamic braking on downgrades well they took much heavier tonnage trains down those same grades WITHOUT DIESEL HELPERS!!
Why the pusher if so powerful
bit of a lightweight train, think my dog could pull.
Considering it was made to pull a five mile loaded train up and down mountains, it's taking it rather easy in it's retirement these days!
I’d like to see a repeat of the APL stack train pull 3985 did back in the 80s w/ 4014… probably not gonna happen though. I rode in the cab for a portion of that trip, 3985 was working hard - got invited to sit on the fireman’s side btw two stops. Same, doubt that’d happen again - I got lucky that day, right place, right time
Big Boys did not pull 5 mile long trains. Managmebt had somewhat more sense back in the day.
I bet a lot of people have forgotten that that is 3985s tender that the big boy is using! Once the people in Illinois convert 4014 tender to oil 3985 will get her tender back
@@rudycarlson8245 a lot of locomotives swapped tenders back in the steam days, tender & engine were separated during an overhaul. The engine often just got the next available tender when it was complete.
Made sense to use 3985s tender, it was already converted & ready to go. It would have added more time, $$ and labor to an already lengthy rebuild process for 4014 if they used 4014s tender.
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How many tree huggers are getting their panties in a twist over the "carbon" being spewed out of that engine?
Yes when in all actuality they should be getting excited and happy that somebody's feeding the trees!!! And all the other plants and the algae in the ocean that produces the oxygen that we need to stay alive global warming climate change a bunch of BS just giving the elite an excuse in my personal opinion....