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    Quote Originally Posted by Delfuego View Post
    I must be getting old. I thought it was gonna be a Azar's Big Boy

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    First thing that came to mind for me, too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by arbol View Post
    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?
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wctriumph View Post
    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.

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    Went out to Deer Trail to see it.





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    'Unless a law-abiding individual has a firearm for his or her own defense, the police typically arrive after it is too late. With rigor mortis setting in, they mark and bag the evidence, interview bystanders, and draw a chalk outline on the ground' - Judge Benitez , 2019, Duncan v. Becerra.

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    We caught it at Manilla Rd. Very cool!
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    Heading up tomorrow to see it. Will try out the light rail from Park Meadows just for fun.

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


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    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.
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