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Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 01:47 PM
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Big 150 celebration this year for the Transcontinental Railroad. UPRR is bringing their 2 big steam engines across Wyoming for the race to Promontory Point. They hit Laramie today and return later in May. It will be really cool to see these big steam engines chugging along the highway. The 844 comes through town every once in a while. The 4014 Big Boy just underwent years of restoration for this event. They make the return later in May for anyone interested in coming up to see them. https://visitlaramie.org/big-boy-tr...q7Nd_PsCt9dn5v4Fc9ZbP4s8h4kFoDHUbIk4OEtw
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05/04/19 01:49 PM
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 02:05 PM
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I was afraid to get close to them when I was a kid.
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 02:33 PM
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They are impressive. I love the old engines.
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05/04/19 02:47 PM
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 02:58 PM
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One of them came through New Braunfels a few years back, we lined the tracks and put pennies on the track like we were kids. Bucket list is to go ride the narrow gauge steam engine in Colorado into the mountains.
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 03:17 PM
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They are impressive. I love the old engines.
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05/04/19 03:17 PM
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 04:15 PM
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One of them came through New Braunfels a few years back, we lined the tracks and put pennies on the track like we were kids. Bucket list is to go ride the narrow gauge steam engine in Colorado into the mountains. we used that as our shuttle for the raft trips from silverton, go in the fall for the best experience. aspens up there get to be awesome and weather is usually much better. when you get tickets, get one of the enclosed cars, thank me later (ashes and soot blow in the open car a lot). fall is also better due to vacation season being over, less tourists to deal with and I think the price goes down a little.
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05/04/19 04:43 PM
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Cool piece of history right there
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05/04/19 04:59 PM
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Cool piece of history right there
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05/04/19 05:09 PM
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 05:27 PM
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That’s really cool! Thanks for posting it!!
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05/04/19 05:33 PM
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I would love to be able to get up there and see them rolling.....
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05/04/19 07:06 PM
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Cool piece of history right there I would love to be able to get up there and see them rolling..... yep that would be a fun ride
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05/04/19 07:17 PM
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Cool piece of history right there x3
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05/04/19 08:21 PM
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 08:33 PM
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That is cool picture and would love to see the run. Thanks
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 08:34 PM
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If Grandad was still alive, I take him to see it. He was a big fan, and had an H.O. gauge track and town he built. One day I'll probably get his models. I was the only one that was impressed by the big steam trains as he was.
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/04/19 08:34 PM
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That would be neat. My great grandad worked for T&P his whole career. This railyard is in Laramie. This was two summers ago. Pretty cool watching the trains moving just feet below you.
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05/04/19 10:43 PM
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This is a LONG video but well worth viewing.
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/05/19 01:40 PM
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05/05/19 02:14 PM
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They are impressive. I love the old engines. They are impressive. My Grandfather took my brother and I on the east Texas train when we were young. I still remember that ride. Would love to do it again. Those old engines have to be "woke up", oiling parts, and until they get to operating temps they creak and grown. Kind of like me in the morning.
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05/05/19 04:24 PM
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There was a program on tv several years ago about trains, it wasn't until sometimes in the 60's there was a diesel eletric engine with as much or more hp than the the Big Boys.
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05/05/19 04:30 PM
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Amazing piece of technology.....they squeezed just about every ounce of horse power they could out of steam.....love to see those old engines run....
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05/05/19 04:37 PM
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That is awesome
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/06/19 12:53 PM
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We found out Sunday morning when looking at my video that a good friend of ours was the engineer for the Cheyenne to Rawlins part of the run. Sure wish I would have remembered he told me that, he would have had something in his pocket for the trip, a keepsake for our son.
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/07/19 04:23 PM
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My grandfather was a conductor for the Illinois Central railroad.. When I was a kid, he would take me to work with him. We went from Memphis to Cairo, Ill. lay over, then back to Memphis. A Steam engine pulled us to Cairo and diesel pulled us back, usually the Panama Ltd, a Streamliner. Wonderful memories.
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05/07/19 04:50 PM
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Are there any plans to recreate the Crash at Crush?
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Re: Big Boy is coming to town
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05/07/19 06:06 PM
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Are there any plans to recreate the Crash at Crush? That was crazy. Seems like it's on old video. Nobody expected the catastrophe that ensued.
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05/07/19 07:15 PM
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05/18/19 02:43 PM
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05/18/19 05:06 PM
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Cool piece of history right there I would love to be able to get up there and see them rolling.....
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Hey folks, Big Boy is coming to Texas. The 4014 will be making a trek across the Western and southern US and Texas is on the list. I would make plans to see it if you can. https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm
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09/25/19 05:26 PM
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Nice. We had replicas of the Nina and the Pinta visit Huntsville last month. As well as a LST that was used on D-Day.
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09/25/19 10:55 PM
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Thanks for posting the schedule...
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09/25/19 11:22 PM
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Funny thing about getting older: Your eyesight starts getting weaker but your ability to see through people's BS gets much better.
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