Big Boy Coming To Denver

[Ah Pook]

No. 4014
Monday 9/6
39th & Wynkoop
9:am-3:00pm

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https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

[arbol]

Is it looking to be electrified? Sorry, bad joke.

Is there a story about Big Boy? I seriously don't know, except of course knowing that (coal fired) steam engines are part of our heritage.

[Delfuego]

I must be getting old. I thought it was gonna be a Azar's Big Boy :)

87240

[arbol]

First thing I thought of too, lol. :)

[.455_Hunter]

I think OP means 9/6.

[def90]

Is it looking to be electrified? Sorry, bad joke.

Is there a story about Big Boy? I seriously don't know, except of course knowing that (coal fired) steam engines are part of our heritage.

Union Pacific still operates two large steam engines and they tour them around the country every summer..

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/index.htm

[DenverGP]

Saw Big Boy 4012 about 45 years ago

https://i.imgur.com/xJ7Obio.jpg?1

[arbol]

They've also got a two letter domain... that's cool and unusual. I figured "up.com" was some sort of marketing engine hype.

Yeah, this sounds like a cool event. I've been on the Georgetown Railroad. Love looking down into the railyard as I pass it on I-70.

Can we take trips, either before and into the station, or after and out of the station? Or is it all for show?

[Irving]

Here's the video beast took last time it was in town.


https://youtu.be/DBfjjrSxG1U

[XJ]

I'm thinking Denver is going to be annoyingly crowded, although the full day event has more activities.

There are a few other stops within comfortable driving distance.



https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

[O2HeN2]

I must be getting old. I thought it was gonna be a Azar's Big Boy :)

87240

First thing that came to mind for me, too.

O2

[SAnd]

Is it looking to be electrified? Sorry, bad joke.
Not so much a joke as a curiosity. About 1940 Germany quit supplying coal to Switzerland. Switzerland had practically no coal of their own but they had a lot of hydroelectric power. So they strung wire above the tracks and use electricity to boil the water in their steam locomotives. That got them through WW2. These were smaller locomotives that were used in the mountains.
Can you imagine the wires that would be needed to boil water for the Big Boy?

[wctriumph]

For anyone that can’t see the one coming to Denver, there is one on static display in Cheyenne in a park right on the main drag. Pretty impressive piece of machinery.

[Ah Pook]

For anyone that can’t see the one coming to Denver, there is one on static display in Cheyenne in a park right on the main drag. Pretty impressive piece of machinery.
There is also one at the Forney Museum. Of special note, it was the only one to be involved in a crash.

I grew up with Kip's Big Boy, so the humor is not lost.

[DenverGP]

Went out to Deer Trail to see it.

https://i.imgur.com/0ZUT8MS.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/dxzJNE8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jiIeZIM.jpg?1

[DenverGP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ay5uZ5WLpA

[.455_Hunter]

We caught it at Manilla Rd. Very cool!

[O2HeN2]

Heading up tomorrow to see it. Will try out the light rail from Park Meadows just for fun.

O2

[OtterbatHellcat]

I'm not a big train nut, but stuff like that is really pretty cool.

[AirbornePathogen]

Very cool! I saw 844 when it was here some years back. The crew told me that Big Boy weighs over a million pounds. Kinda mind-boggling.

[beast556]

If it makes a stop up this way, we will check it out again. We avoid Denver unless absolutely necessary. When it left Cheyenne months back it was definitely impressive to see.

[Squeeze]

I just watched it roll into 38th & Blake via CCTV. Pretty cool train.

[rondog]

I went out to Deer Trail yesterday too to see the Big Mutha, a very impressive machine for sure. Then found a place west of Strasburg to watch it go by at speed.