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  • Опубликовано: 14 окт 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!!

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  • @ukrainiipyat
    @ukrainiipyat 2 месяца назад +38

    From the foreigner from country with smaller less powerful locomotives - this what America is all about - bigger, better, more powerful.

    • @ЛЬВИНИ
      @ЛЬВИНИ 2 месяца назад +2

    • @MrTlw2010
      @MrTlw2010 Месяц назад +1

      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! 😎🦘

    • @Juggy2383
      @Juggy2383 Месяц назад +2

      Good luck 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇦

  • @ColinBuckowski
    @ColinBuckowski 22 дня назад +2

    Absolute insanity, thank you American Locomotive Company/ UP! and thanks so much for sharing your footage. Remarkable to hear it working rather than cracking over the flatlands.

  • @claiborneeastjr4129
    @claiborneeastjr4129 Месяц назад +2

    Big Boy at its best - moving slowly, chugging and chuffing and working hard!

  • @timclifford449
    @timclifford449 Месяц назад +6

    What a magnificent machine

  • @CollinBlack-j1y
    @CollinBlack-j1y 2 месяца назад +9

    G'day mate from Australia. That's the heavy metal music, old school style. She sounded awesome, heavy grades and decent scenery.

  • @MachineryMastery-b1o
    @MachineryMastery-b1o Месяц назад +4

    I’m loving every second of this!

  • @GaryCottle-lw3cx
    @GaryCottle-lw3cx 2 месяца назад +5

    Great Video, You know the best areas to film, We saw it fly by in the flat NV desert.

  • @michaelhines1597
    @michaelhines1597 2 месяца назад +9

    BEAUTIFUL..👍

  • @dannyhonn973
    @dannyhonn973 2 месяца назад +10

    Weve had a Big Boy, Challenger, J and A. Time for a N&W Y or C&O H8.

  • @rockguitarist931
    @rockguitarist931 2 месяца назад +5

    I would love to have a seat in one of those dome cars.

  • @douglaskaiser9933
    @douglaskaiser9933 2 месяца назад +3

    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.

  • @SimonTog
    @SimonTog 2 месяца назад +5

    Super nice video :)

  • @soopergoof232
    @soopergoof232 2 месяца назад +8

    Big Boy's stack talk is surprisinglly subdued and muted except when under maximum tractive effort.

    • @lozfan001
      @lozfan001 2 месяца назад +4

      Old boy is barely breaking a sweat.

  • @philippecate964
    @philippecate964 Месяц назад +1

    Really, really beautiful !!! I hear the diesel loc engine : does it help big boy or is it just in case of failure ?

    • @theknickerbocker5808
      @theknickerbocker5808 Месяц назад +1

      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.

  • @ЛЬВИНИ
    @ЛЬВИНИ 2 месяца назад +2

    Great video🤩!

  • @torreybennett3106
    @torreybennett3106 2 месяца назад +3

    This is a passenger train?

  • @paulinorodriguez4571
    @paulinorodriguez4571 Месяц назад

    Me encantaría viajar en esa locomotora 🚂❤❤

  • @lavernedofelmier6496
    @lavernedofelmier6496 2 месяца назад +2

    This is beautiful can’t imagine an EV loci 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @capelife-lq7wg
      @capelife-lq7wg 26 дней назад

      Locomotives today are either electric like what they have in the northeast corridor/acela... Or they are hybrid... Those Diesel engines power a generator which then sends power to the wheels

  • @garyjones9023
    @garyjones9023 Месяц назад +2

    Nice! +1

  • @mulatnochannel
    @mulatnochannel 2 месяца назад +3

    Wow nice video n I scrb you 👍❤

  • @ehcatsfaneric2211
    @ehcatsfaneric2211 2 месяца назад +2

    How I wish it would come easy just once like the 3985 did...please

  • @dogmannz
    @dogmannz Месяц назад

    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?

    • @WillowMoon2.0
      @WillowMoon2.0 16 дней назад

      Because Big Boy was literally built in the 40s

  • @jamesherchek7383
    @jamesherchek7383 2 месяца назад

    Why the pusher if so powerful

  • @gerryroach7111
    @gerryroach7111 Месяц назад

    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!!

    • @eiboeck88
      @eiboeck88 23 дня назад

      i think the main reason the diesel is there is so the bog boy dosen't use so much water because there are not as many water towers as in it's hay day

    • @WillowMoon2.0
      @WillowMoon2.0 16 дней назад

      Because Big Boy was literally built in the 40s

  • @philipyouell2920
    @philipyouell2920 2 месяца назад

    bit of a lightweight train, think my dog could pull.

  • @GaryWoolard-ex6gj
    @GaryWoolard-ex6gj 8 дней назад

    Spitting out all that aiir pollution!

    • @danielthoman7324
      @danielthoman7324 6 дней назад +1

      It is nothing compared to everything else.

  • @nightlightabcd
    @nightlightabcd 2 месяца назад +6

    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!

    • @dgrenier4908
      @dgrenier4908 2 месяца назад +2

      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

    • @michaelperkins5858
      @michaelperkins5858 Месяц назад

      Big Boys did not pull 5 mile long trains. Managmebt had somewhat more sense back in the day.

    • @rudycarlson8245
      @rudycarlson8245 Месяц назад

      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

    • @dgrenier4908
      @dgrenier4908 Месяц назад

      @@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.

    • @robertisaacs5248
      @robertisaacs5248 Месяц назад

      @@rudycarlson8245

  • @BillK.1973
    @BillK.1973 Месяц назад +2

    How many tree huggers are getting their panties in a twist over the "carbon" being spewed out of that engine?

    • @johnprice867
      @johnprice867 Месяц назад

      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....

    • @danielthoman7324
      @danielthoman7324 6 дней назад +2

      It is not that much compared to everything else.