Rusty Traque posted:I wonder if the mystique about the Big Boys would be the same if it would have been called the "Wasatch" class as UP originally intended.
They could have called them "Hello Kitty" engines and I doubt anyone would have cared. Frankly, "Big Boy," today, invokes snickering as it has connotations it didn't have in 1941. I wish they'd had called them something else and that name stuck...
Dominick, I agree with you fully. I would also love to see a Centennial on the high iron again, double-heading with a 4000!
