The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 is featured in a video shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2017 Union Pacific Days. The model is from the collection of museum volunteer Joel Naegele. […]
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Big Boy 4014 at Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s Union Pacific Days 2017
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 is featured in a video shot at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum’s 2017 Union Pacific Days. The model is from the collection of museum volunteer Joel Naegele. […]
Big Boy braking power
Ten hoppers coupled to the Big Boy consist in January 2014 were used for additional braking power. Steve Sweeney Q Why was there a string of hopper cars in the consist moving Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, Calif., in January 2014? – David Tritenbach, Kerrville, Texas A Although Union […]
Minnesota steam engine to use Big Boy fire grates NEWSWIRE
Grates from the firebox of Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 are going to use in the firebox of Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 No. 261. Though of different size and design, they were both built by the American Locomotive Co. in the 1940s and can share certain components. Erik Hoofnagel MINNEAPOLIS — In an example […]
Rivarossi HO scale UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4
Rivarossi HO scale UP Big Boy The Big Boy’s tender features an operating backup light. The detailed pilot deck includes a swingout scale-size coupler One of the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built is now available in HO scale equipped with a top-of-the-line Digital Command Control sound decoder. Just like the prototype, Rivarossi’s […]
BIG BOY WORK BEGINS NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 acts as a shop switcher to place 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 on a turntable at the railroad’s Cheyenne, Wyo., shops in July. Hayley Enoch CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two weeks after Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844’s successful excursion for the 2016 Cheyenne Frontier Days, the railroad says that the Heritage Operations team […]
Member video: Weathered Big Boy
With some very good guidance from Tim Shackleton and Mick Bonwick on the Missenden Abbey weathering course, Andrew Thompson says he managed to get rid of the shiny plastic look from a Rivarossi Big Boy. Seen here on the test track, sound dubbed on from various recordings of Challenger 3985. […]
Member video: Weathered Big Boy
With some very good guidance from Tim Shackleton and Mick Bonwick on the Missenden Abbey weathering course, Andrew Thompson says he managed to get rid of the shiny plastic look from a Rivarossi Big Boy. Seen here on the test track, sound dubbed on from various recordings of Challenger 3985. […]
A Big Boy on the North Western Railroad
Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: North Western Railroad Location: Ohio Scale: O Gauge Theme: Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description: My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]
A Big Boy on the North Western Railroad
Name: Adam Matthews Railroad Name: North Western Railroad Location: Ohio Scale: O Gauge Theme: Freelanced Hi-Rail based on Northeast Ohio Description: My Lionel Vision Line Big Boy 4014 hauls a string of 29 reefer cars around the new mainline on the Lower Level of the North Western Railroad. […]
On the road to restoration: UP Big Boy chase photos
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Member video: Union Pacific Big Boy HO scale steam locomotive
MTH HO scale Union Pacific no. 4006 Big Boy 4-8-8-4 hauling a reefer block around a model train layout set in 1954. […]