Very true !!!!! .....and a tribute to the one piece steel frame and engineering that was so well done that this is all possible so many years later !!!!! :-)
I personally love SD70macs and the fact that 4015 is officially preserved as a heritage unit is just plain awesome. She's served her life as a freight hauling titan, now she resides alongside the steam titans in Cheyenne.
I just saw it at the museum of transportation, it came in and stopped for 10min. It was cool for her to be next to one of her sisters at museum, kinda a special moment. I wish they all got rehabbed and put back into service but they have done more than enough for us and asking more would be a insult, better to let them have a easy life, plus I think Union Pacific still cherishes them all, they seemed to give them to museums that care for them and maintain them. Maybe one day we will see another back on the rails.
As much as I love seeing this locomotive operate under his own power, I love seeing the Challenger and UP Northern class 844 operating. That said, all running steam locomotives are awesome to see in person, especially the giants.
I was seeing a detail that in several times the diesel locomotive is working. Only in few occasions the big boy is really working. Is really notable due the noise of the steam pistons and the cadence of exhaust. When the diesel is working, the noise of steam is auscent and the heat and noise of the diesel is notable. I dont know why they are that. The challenger was work alone always.
@@antiworldx 5:36 I could not see anyone in the cab of the diesel, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a crew in there! And I doubt the diesel was MU'd to 4014. But could that diesel handle all of the tonnage by itself? Why not keep 4014 under stress?
Anyone aware that Uncle Pete is going to change #844 and #3985 to oil-fired? Or are they going to become museum pieces? Good memories chasing both of them and grabbing videos and photos when they were taken out of their stables!
I really want the 6755 M1 to be brought back to steam even knowing it’d take a lot of work. It would be worth it I think with it being the last M1 in existence. It weighs about as much as the 4014, although it’s less powerful and is more designed for range.
Man I wanted to see it Today I missed my chance but it's always cool to watch it in videos yk @Fan Railer I've been binge watching your videos.🙏🏾🔥(keep the videos coming bro).
When ya crunch the numbers of how much/what kind of fuel it burned compared to the amount of cargo big boy was able to pull, its actually one of the most earth friendly machines America ever built!
Very nice camera work. SOme great shots. Nice to hear that thing chuffing. Allowing the diesel to push the Largest, most powerful working locomotive in the world is shameful. Boy listen that whistle echo off the buildings. What a beautiful sound.
No, the diesel engine isn't doing the "work" to pull or push the train. I believe it's simply there as a backup in case Big Boy has some mechanical trouble and -- more importantly -- to generate needed electricity for the passenger cars behind it.
With Google Earth on St Louis Union Station I could work out why the Big Boy 4014 went into reverse to change over to the track leading to the station. I have kept up with all of your videos on my big 75"TV screen with the surround sound turned up. It is awesome! Thanks so much from Australia.
It was the first week of school but i still got to stay home on friday and see this up in Poplar Bluff where it stayed the night before going on to St Louis
Another awesome video man! The lighting, vision and sound are incredible. Great to see the articulation which I think is pretty rare in the USA, haven't seen it before with BigBoy. And then the steam whistle! Goosebumps all over the place, the echo makes it sound 100x better then without echo. Unbelievable sound, so beautiful! One of the best sounding video's out there. If there wasn't the talking all the time I might set it as a ringtone on my phone one day :D
It's never going to be put into full service. Its an oil-burning steam locomotive. The costs would be astronomical. They already drop an ungodly amount of money into running a yearly excursion. It just woulden't work.
@@MaketoMake815 not to mention the environmental nutjobs would have a problem with a gargantuan oil burning steam locomotive pumping a ton of steam into the sky lol
this is not the largest steam locomotive. The Chesapeake and Ohio H-8 locomotives would take that honor both in size and weight and since there are still two C&O H-8's left in the world the big boy cannot claim that title. Largest running steam locomotive yes,
St. Louis actually has their own Big Boy, number 4006 at the Museum of Transportation. 4014 however was the first Big Boy to come to St. Louis under its own power, which is still super exciting in itself. I saw 4014 myself on August 13th and 14th when it was in Fort Worth, Texas. A magnificent machine it is.
I saw it go through Scott City yesterday I was less than ten feet away and it caused the Earth to shake is it went by amazing piece of American engineering!
Dang I wish I would have known about this before yesterday. I would have driven up from Memphis and made a weekend of it. But unfortunately I have too much going on.
wonderful, wonderful. TY. One question, was 4015 doing the backing up? Another question: at 7:07 did the wheels slip? Something? was going around faster; sorry I don't know the names of the parts.
The only people on the train are U.P. crew. No ticketed passengers. If they hauled passengers that would turn the trips into disasters handling the crowds, ticketing, law enforcement, etc. There plenty of problems just driving a steam locomotive around the USA.
Nice!! So many questions though, I'm assuming that at least 1 or 2 of those cars are Sleepers for the crew to rest overnight and there would have to be at least one with Toilet facilities/Showers (otherwise they would be getting pretty ripe by now) and one would need to be a Kitchen car for their meals. I also assume that 1 or 2 of the cars are Workshops with all of the Tools they might need for maintenance and repairs. Am I close?
1. Yes, there are a few dorm cars on the train for the crews to use. However, there are not enough rooms for the entire crew, so they put some of those guys up in hotels nearby. 2. Back in the day, and still today on Amtrak, full bedrooms come with a bathroom. 3. There is a diner in the consist. 4. The two baggage cars (Art Lockman and Lynn Nystrom) after the diesel are the tool cars. One carries all the tools and parts, the other has a workshop onboard for fabrication / machining needs. I believe it also has a washing machine for dirty laundry. 5. Byron, it depends. If there is a station, they will stop near it. But in general, they like to foul crossings with the engine. It prevents people from driving around directly in front of them. Yes, they will block the crossing for at LEAST the scheduled stop time. If they run into mechanical issues that delay their departure, they will take as long as they need to rectify the issue. Be warned, traffic will be at a gridlock well before, during, and for a little while after 4014 passes through Lee's Summit. UP Special Agents (RR police) and town police will be on hand to crowd control and direct traffic, but there's only so much they can do. Expect road closures around the stop area.
@@darthvadersith514 Hope people get pictures. In 2019, someone shared an image taken from 4023's Omaha display area, they caught 4014 passing on the track in the background!
10:30 makes me wish the backup Diesel was an F-series B-unit. Those water tankers and the passenger cars all look to share approximate dimensions with each other (streamlined), and the F-series engines were specifically designed to streamline with those passenger cars, so I think a b-unit would fit perfectly into that consist and blend right in, while still providing the electric power to the passenger cars and backup motive power that they seem to need.
I can't imagine the logistics of running a railroad the size of UP plus accommodating special interests stuff like this. It must have been quite a tricky maneuver backing that train through the switches and curves. Who's aboard all those passenger cars?
I wonder if they tipped their hat to the older brother the #4008. At the museum of transport.. I know they passed right by the yard.. and I know this would have went right past my house off of Berry road...
Still curious why it was routed into Illinois to get to STL instead of staying on the Missouri side of the river isn't the Desoto Sub the other route could of took?
Thank God for U.P. and their respect and dedication to the Steam program, here in Ohio you cant run steam on a mainline unless pulled by a crap diesel, they have destroyed railfanning in Ohio
I wonder who are those Dudes that stuffin' up the cab of 4014.They don't look to me like honest railroad workers,more like Dudes that pressing their asses Flat sittin' most of their lives in airconditioned offices.
No, they don't currently have any in operating condition. The one in Cheyenne needs some work done. Also does not have ptc or any of the modern stuff required for mainline operation. They require a semi-modern diesel in the consist with a steamer for a reason.
This is hands down some of the best articulation footage of the engine yet.
Very true !!!!! .....and a tribute to the one piece steel frame and engineering that was so well done that this is all possible so many years later !!!!! :-)
11:16 cool to see the articulation in action, how the boiler moves away from the train
The other way around. The front "engine" rotates from the boiler.
That thumbnail of it on the curve is awesome! Showing off that articulation.
I personally love SD70macs and the fact that 4015 is officially preserved as a heritage unit is just plain awesome. She's served her life as a freight hauling titan, now she resides alongside the steam titans in Cheyenne.
I just saw it at the museum of transportation, it came in and stopped for 10min. It was cool for her to be next to one of her sisters at museum, kinda a special moment. I wish they all got rehabbed and put back into service but they have done more than enough for us and asking more would be a insult, better to let them have a easy life, plus I think Union Pacific still cherishes them all, they seemed to give them to museums that care for them and maintain them. Maybe one day we will see another back on the rails.
I saw 4012 in steamtown USA a while back. It was before it went through the recent cosmetic restoration. I was blown away by the scale of it.
Excellent vantage points, and especially enjoy the clear illustration of the articulation.
As much as I love seeing this locomotive operate under his own power, I love seeing the Challenger and UP Northern class 844 operating. That said, all running steam locomotives are awesome to see in person, especially the giants.
I was seeing a detail that in several times the diesel locomotive is working. Only in few occasions the big boy is really working. Is really notable due the noise of the steam pistons and the cadence of exhaust. When the diesel is working, the noise of steam is auscent and the heat and noise of the diesel is notable. I dont know why they are that. The challenger was work alone always.
@@antiworldx I thought the diesel was there to provide dynamic braking and head end power for the passenger cars
@@antiworldx 5:36 I could not see anyone in the cab of the diesel, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a crew in there! And I doubt the diesel was MU'd to 4014. But could that diesel handle all of the tonnage by itself? Why not keep 4014 under stress?
Anyone aware that Uncle Pete is going to change #844 and #3985 to oil-fired? Or are they going to become museum pieces? Good memories chasing both of them and grabbing videos and photos when they were taken out of their stables!
I really want the 6755 M1 to be brought back to steam even knowing it’d take a lot of work. It would be worth it I think with it being the last M1 in existence. It weighs about as much as the 4014, although it’s less powerful and is more designed for range.
Man I wanted to see it Today I missed my chance but it's always cool to watch it in videos yk @Fan Railer I've been binge watching your videos.🙏🏾🔥(keep the videos coming bro).
It’ll be on display tomorrow (Sunday August 29th). You can still see it then.
When ya crunch the numbers of how much/what kind of fuel it burned compared to the amount of cargo big boy was able to pull, its actually one of the most earth friendly machines America ever built!
Really? I haven't done the math myself, but it would be interesting to see how the fuel/ton/mile numbers compare.
I SO CANT WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW WHEN IT PASSES BY MY HOUSE!!
you'll have to wait an extra day, it's not leaving St Louis until Monday.
Very nice camera work. SOme great shots. Nice to hear that thing chuffing. Allowing the diesel to push the Largest, most powerful working locomotive in the world is shameful. Boy listen that whistle echo off the buildings. What a beautiful sound.
It's not pushing.
No, the diesel engine isn't doing the "work" to pull or push the train. I believe it's simply there as a backup in case Big Boy has some mechanical trouble and -- more importantly -- to generate needed electricity for the passenger cars behind it.
At 7:40 and 11:10 - a couple of great examples of how the Mallet system enables such a long loco to go around sharp curves.
With Google Earth on St Louis Union Station I could work out why the Big Boy 4014 went into reverse to change over to the track leading to the station. I have kept up with all of your videos on my big 75"TV screen with the surround sound turned up. It is awesome! Thanks so much from Australia.
That whistle commands respect !
Man I wish #4014 would come through or close to Ohio 😢 what a beautiful piece of engineering from days gone by!! 👍👍👌👏
BB 4014 is overnighting here in Jefferson City, got a chance to go see him in all his glory. An amazing machine!
It was the first week of school but i still got to stay home on friday and see this up in Poplar Bluff where it stayed the night before going on to St Louis
Nice way to wake up on a Sunday morning! I'll get to see Big Boy tomorrow when it's in Jeff City (north end of Missouri Blvd.)
Yep, got to go see him yesterday. Wonderful train!
Nice. Hope to be there tomorrow morning. Ty for posting.
Another awesome video man! The lighting, vision and sound are incredible. Great to see the articulation which I think is pretty rare in the USA, haven't seen it before with BigBoy. And then the steam whistle! Goosebumps all over the place, the echo makes it sound 100x better then without echo. Unbelievable sound, so beautiful! One of the best sounding video's out there. If there wasn't the talking all the time I might set it as a ringtone on my phone one day :D
I'm sure that Union Pacific will go back to Big Boy in full service in the future real soon.
It's never going to be put into full service. Its an oil-burning steam locomotive. The costs would be astronomical. They already drop an ungodly amount of money into running a yearly excursion. It just woulden't work.
@@MaketoMake815 not to mention the environmental nutjobs would have a problem with a gargantuan oil burning steam locomotive pumping a ton of steam into the sky lol
GOOD CLEAN COAL!!1
@@Cancun771 it’s not clean lmao it’s a fucking lump of carbon
St Louis was probably super excited to see the largest steam engine in the world!
Came from Indianapolis to see this fellow. I’m super excited.
Echo effect is really great here.
this is not the largest steam locomotive. The Chesapeake and Ohio H-8 locomotives would take that honor both in size and weight and since there are still two C&O H-8's left in the world the big boy cannot claim that title. Largest running steam locomotive yes,
St. Louis actually has their own Big Boy, number 4006 at the Museum of Transportation. 4014 however was the first Big Boy to come to St. Louis under its own power, which is still super exciting in itself. I saw 4014 myself on August 13th and 14th when it was in Fort Worth, Texas. A magnificent machine it is.
That's a great angle you had.
I saw it go through Scott City yesterday I was less than ten feet away and it caused the Earth to shake is it went by amazing piece of American engineering!
9 people and counting that gave thumbs down to this video needs mental health treatment
They were probably all Politicians!!
Great video.
Big Boy needs to pull Red Caboose out of Lamar Park lol
Nice video!!! Articulation was almost as if I was watching HO scale. That’s a nice camera
Dang I wish I would have known about this before yesterday. I would have driven up from Memphis and made a weekend of it. But unfortunately I have too much going on.
Home sweet home!
wonderful, wonderful. TY. One question, was 4015 doing the backing up? Another question: at 7:07 did the wheels slip? Something? was going around faster; sorry I don't know the names of the parts.
Nope, 4015 is at idle here. 7:07, the wheels do slip, because the exhaust injector water overflow made the rails wet.
@@FanRailer thank you for answering, and thanks again for the video.
Can people actually pay to ride on it or is it for show only or union pacific family members only.
The only people on the train are U.P. crew. No ticketed passengers. If they hauled passengers that would turn the trips into disasters handling the crowds, ticketing, law enforcement, etc. There plenty of problems just driving a steam locomotive around the USA.
Very nice. Thanks for posting.
Undefeated at railroad crossings since 1941.
Thank you for posting this! We watched 4014 in southern IL as it came up from Chester but these view are fantastic :-)
Nice!! So many questions though, I'm assuming that at least 1 or 2 of those cars are Sleepers for the crew to rest overnight and there would have to be at least one with Toilet facilities/Showers (otherwise they would be getting pretty ripe by now) and one would need to be a Kitchen car for their meals. I also assume that 1 or 2 of the cars are Workshops with all of the Tools they might need for maintenance and repairs. Am I close?
I was wondering that too
I’ve had those same exact questions
1. Yes, there are a few dorm cars on the train for the crews to use. However, there are not enough rooms for the entire crew, so they put some of those guys up in hotels nearby.
2. Back in the day, and still today on Amtrak, full bedrooms come with a bathroom.
3. There is a diner in the consist.
4. The two baggage cars (Art Lockman and Lynn Nystrom) after the diesel are the tool cars. One carries all the tools and parts, the other has a workshop onboard for fabrication / machining needs. I believe it also has a washing machine for dirty laundry.
5. Byron, it depends. If there is a station, they will stop near it. But in general, they like to foul crossings with the engine. It prevents people from driving around directly in front of them. Yes, they will block the crossing for at LEAST the scheduled stop time. If they run into mechanical issues that delay their departure, they will take as long as they need to rectify the issue. Be warned, traffic will be at a gridlock well before, during, and for a little while after 4014 passes through Lee's Summit. UP Special Agents (RR police) and town police will be on hand to crowd control and direct traffic, but there's only so much they can do. Expect road closures around the stop area.
@@FanRailer Thank ya for the response 🤠🤘🏼🤠🤘🏼
I’ve always wondered why all those different types of cars are there an what type each one is
The big boy is soooo huge
Too bad it couldn't visit the MOT. We could have had two Big Boys side by side (4014 and 4006).
It’s going to pass the museum.
Going pass train Museum Monday
@@darthvadersith514 Hope people get pictures. In 2019, someone shared an image taken from 4023's Omaha display area, they caught 4014 passing on the track in the background!
Greetings from St. Louis
It's Majestic!
Qu'elle est belle cette superbe big boy une star du rail.👍👍👍👍👍👍
10:30 makes me wish the backup Diesel was an F-series B-unit. Those water tankers and the passenger cars all look to share approximate dimensions with each other (streamlined), and the F-series engines were specifically designed to streamline with those passenger cars, so I think a b-unit would fit perfectly into that consist and blend right in, while still providing the electric power to the passenger cars and backup motive power that they seem to need.
I can't imagine the logistics of running a railroad the size of UP plus accommodating special interests stuff like this. It must have been quite a tricky maneuver backing that train through the switches and curves. Who's aboard all those passenger cars?
Awesome thanks for the video.
"Ahh, forget the curve,,,jus kick em Randy"......
Amazing echoes!
I wonder if they tipped their hat to the older brother the #4008. At the museum of transport.. I know they passed right by the yard.. and I know this would have went right past my house off of Berry road...
4006, but yes. The did stop at the National Museum of Transportation for a little bit.
Nice, I saw it yesterday as well.
Still curious why it was routed into Illinois to get to STL instead of staying on the Missouri side of the river isn't the Desoto Sub the other route could of took?
Probably to knock another state off the bucket list. Also, if you can bring the train across MacArthur, why not do it?
@@FanRailer Makes sense if that's the reason. Yea that's quite impressive bridge, did you it goin over or only after it crossed the bridge?
I did not try to get a MacArthur Bridge shot.
🌹🌹magnificence
Excellent!
Often see videos will water gushing out the left side. Why ?
dat articulation tho
Will you be out tomorrow at the exhibit? I was over by the station filming.
I have no plans currently to visit the display tomorrow.
Great stuff.....Dave ,ENG.
Went to see it today thousands showed up
Also surprised they didn't use one of the diesels with the flag on it instead, or the heritage units.
I was there today!
Thank God for U.P. and their respect and dedication to the Steam program, here in Ohio you cant run steam on a mainline unless pulled by a crap diesel, they have destroyed railfanning in Ohio
seen myself in that video :)
I wonder who are those Dudes that stuffin' up the cab of 4014.They don't look to me like honest railroad workers,more like Dudes that pressing their asses Flat sittin' most of their lives in airconditioned offices.
Wasn't it supposed to be like on display on September 6th or something like that did it just alive early and it's not going to be on display yet
September 6th is the Denver display day.
@@FanRailer ok thanks
Tomorrow st.Louis display
It was supposed to be on display on Monday actually, but they're a day ahead it seems
@@Mini_Celeste No, it was never Monday in St. Louis. web.archive.org/web/20210706105935/www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm
Just curious why the Big Boy and other heavies from the steam era need modern day helpers.
They don't.
🤦♂️
@@sappersteel532 it’s for power, and AC for the cars, as well as braking.
4014 does all the pulling though.
Couldn’t they have used a E B-Unit instead of a main Diesel engine for dynamic breaking????
No, they don't currently have any in operating condition. The one in Cheyenne needs some work done. Also does not have ptc or any of the modern stuff required for mainline operation. They require a semi-modern diesel in the consist with a steamer for a reason.
Bro where the Northeast Corridor videos at???
eh it's more of the same stuff over an over again. Probably won't do another NEC outing until the new Acelas enter service.
@@FanRailer Still fun to watch though
If anyone sees Ed Dickens in real life give him a hug for me if he asks for my name tell him its Adam Chancellor thank you iam big fan of Bigboy 4014
🙏this is 🤩