Article and video posted on UP.com website at the link below
http://www.up.com/aboutup/comm...-steam-8-11-2016.htm
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Taking the Big Boy for a Spin, Ed Dickens keynote speaker.
Published on You Tube, August 11, 2016 / Play time: One minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...ature=em-uploademail
Gary
Very cool!!
Best of luck, UP Steam Shop!
If I wasn't so old and fat and broken ..... I'd wish I could be an entry-level guy in that shop, working on 4014. 
Exciting stuff! After listening to the presentation on the rebuild of the 844, I'm confident that the day will come when we all get to experience 4014 once again. Thanks to UP and its employees for keeping steam alive in Cheyenne!
I must say it is really something to see a 4000 on the TT in Cheyenne again.
I've grabbed my popcorn and I'm just waiting for the entertainment to start. Anything with the UP steam program, you just know the thread will get locked eventually!
But now that 844 has actually run and can steam now, I truly believe this project is going to get moving, and moving fast. What was a "never will happen" thing we all used to dream about in bull sessions is actually looking like we can really, truly, see a 4000 under steam again.
I never thought I'd see the day where I could type/write that and not have it be a joke.
great video - exciting news
OOOO Boy let the hype begin!!!
I got popcorn. Didn't 4014 have the most flue time left before retirement?
Yawn...
Getting the UPP 4014 to fire correctly with OIL is going to be the trick!
Dominic Mazoch posted:Getting the UPP 4014 to fire correctly with OIL is going to be the trick!
When I talked to them before 4014 left Los Angeles, they said they didn't see much of a problem. The Challenger was originally coal-fired and burns oil now. Don't recall if 844 originally ran on coal.
Thanks for posting.
No much info, but really cool all the same. I would say that maybe the 844 success would quite some of the naysayers, but I am sure it won't.
Thank you Union Pacific for your renewed dedication to steam operations and restoration. .Congratulations to the UP steam crew on a job well done on the 844 and looking forward to witnessing your next success with 4014.
jhz563 posted:I would say that maybe the 844 success would quite some of the naysayers, but I am sure it won't.
Ya think?
OGR Webmaster posted:Yawn...
Dominic Mazoch posted:Getting the UPP 4014 to fire correctly with OIL is going to be the trick!
Hot Water has already stated many times, (correct me if I'm wrong) that firing with Oil should not be an issue.
Enjoy the moment !!
Looks like a plane ticket to Cheyenne is in order... Will be a great event.
Yes, they will have it running in a while, just like they did 844............I hope this thread won't get cut/butchered like the others, but we got more judges than jury on this forum!........I'd say that the Union Pacific has very deep pockets, and can throw man power, and dollars for parts at it, where other railroads can not or will not, everything viewed as an "ROI".......Not one company has more money than the other, it's difference in business philosophy....I would have been tickled to death, to see the "765" run through the Ashland-Huntington-Ironton Tristate area this year, but NS says "NO", and it is their railroad....
At least the NS has a steam program... the CSX needs to take note!
