Big Boy Detailed History and Facts

I purchased this magazine from the LHS.  I must say that it's an extremely comprehensive collections of articles that I've ever read on the Big Boy.  Tons of information on the territory of the BB, why 4014 was chosen as the locomotive to be restored, locomotive testing between steam vs. diesel and lots of other interesting facts.  IMHO, it's worth it to pick up a copy!!

I have to get a copy of this!

Thanks for the info!

It really is a fantastic magazine!  I got my copy yesterday and already read through it cover to cover.  I don't think you'll be sorry!

I'll have to get that issue as well.

-Greg

The did have some problems with the comparison chart on page 80-81 (comparing the Big Boy with other large locomotives.  For example, they show the Virginian's 2-10-10-2 as having the same weight on drivers and total engine weight.

 

Stuart

 

I purchased my copy yesterday. I recommend it to anyone with an interest in the UP 4000 Class.

 

Bob

I love the Big Boy - actually stood alongside one in a UP trainyard when I was five or six, and boy, it was big!!!!  And very very warm, too!!    I'm going to go get that Trains magazine in a few hours, but . . . 

 

Not to be a spoilsport or hi-jack the thread, but I'm actually tired of all the attention the Big Boy gets: a constant disappointment I often encounter is that I will buy or see about UP steam only to discover that fully half is about the BB, so much so that the book pays short shrift to other less glamourous locos - the FEF and some earlier ones were way cool, too.  Still, they were both pretty much the ultimate steam and the most glamorous steamer made, so I am glad they are restoring 4014.  Just wish they could do some of the older, earlier ones, too, and I am so glad that 844 never had to be restored!

You ask if that feat could be done today? I would say no, the government paperwork and hoops they would make you jump through would take more than a year Then we could get onto designing and building.