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Hot Water posted:
Big_Boy_4005 posted:

There is currently a topic running on the Big Boy, HERE. We are already on page three with all the information you need, and a lot of photos and videos exclusive to that topic.

Actually nothing posted on those three pages of the other thread provide ANY information relative to Friday's  (the 25th) schedule from Butler to West Chicago. It is about 119 miles, and even at a speed of 40 MPH, that is only about 3 hours running time. NOT 6 and half hours, that the schedule allows. So, the important questions are:

1) Where will they be stopping for "enroute displays"?

2) How many stops will there be?

3) What is their normal running speed (out west on the UP main line, they were doing only 40 MPH)? 

 

The links are on page one, embedded on the UP Steam Club's email that I pasted in a post. The text is in a different font, so now that yo know where to look, it's all there.

The schedule isn't very tight. When you study it, you'll see they like to start at 8 AM and end around 2:30. They should do better now that they're back on home road. They do stop frequently. When you see the tracking map, the little diamonds are stops. Longer stops will have arrival and departure times. There have been a few unscheduled stops, but again those may have been due to BNSF traffic over the weekend.

The schedule seems to have a lot of padding in it. The trip between St Paul and Duluth should take two and a half hours under normal circumstances They allowed 8.5. Speed up, slow down and occasionally stop. You never know. That's why the GPS is so nice.

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