RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2014 Watching the live feed from Evanston and someone with the same colour hair as me has parked himself in front of the Trains Webcam and all we've got is a close up of his neck . Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2014 There a new UP video just been posted on YouTube of the ascent of Cajon including a fabulous shot taken from an overtaking train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMTxytdBka8&feature=youtu.be Jamie 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 6, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 6, 2014 After a quick servicing stop it's just left Grainger Wyoming, next stop Green River then just 10 miles more to Rock Springs where it will stop for the night. It's keeping good time and is nearly in schedule. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU7lv6C7I-4 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2014 They are on the move again. They set off from Rock Springs bfore 8am and are now approaching Table Rock WY, that's a shade under 60 miles which is making good time. The next stop is due at Wamsutter which is the only oasis in the middle of the Red Desert. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Just passed the webcam. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2014 (edited) It's just pulled into Wamsutter 15 minutes early. 80 miles in a shade over 3 hours. Not bad for a loco that's not moved since 1962. Ed Dickens did an interview at Ogden and stressed that they had made adjustments to the lubrication. It's a fabulous project and obviously has some very competent people running it. As an aside Wamsutter is a very isolated town in the middle of the Red Desert which is a basin with no outlet to the sea, what rain there is just evaporates. When I was there in 2012 the only sign of life was thislocal inhabitant. Apparently they even managed to survive Buffalo Bill which the Bison didn't. Jamie Edited August 17, 2022 by jamie92208 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Moments ago. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 7, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2014 They have just passed Walcott which is where the old Lincoln Highway (Now route 287) deviates from Interstate 80 and follows the UP line round to Laramie via hanna and Medecine Bow. They have covered over 140 miles so far today and still have nearly 100 to do to get to Laramie. It lloks like being another long day for them. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 8, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 8, 2014 (edited) It's on the last lap now with about 40 miles to go. It has just passed Hermosa and is approaching Dale Junction. A Big Boy on Sherman Hill again at last. The last time it was here was in 1962 on its way to California. Quick update, The tracker shows that it's just topped Sherman Hill, now 35 miles of 1 in 65 downgrade to Cheyenne. It will soon pass Buford, population 1, elevation 8000'. It was population 2 in 2005 when I cycled up there. When I went back in 2012 (by car) a UP trackworker said,' Oh He got divorced.' Nearly home. Jamie Edited May 8, 2014 by jamie92208 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 (edited) She's home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAJs8U56_c&feature=youtu.be Just nine days to go until I get to see her/him (if all goes to plan...) If the efficiency and panache with which UP have undertaken this move are anything to go by then bodes well for the restoration to running order. Edited May 9, 2014 by LNER4479 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 9, 2014 She's home! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EAJs8U56_c&feature=youtu.be Just nine days to go until I get to see her/him (if all goes to plan...) If the efficiency and panache with which UP have undertaken this move are anything to go by then bodes well for the restoration to running order. I'm jealous already. Doesn't the hooter sound fabulous even on compressed air and I still can't get over how she just dwarf's the two SD70's which are not small machines. Hope your trip goes well. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Boucher Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU7lv6C7I-4 For some reason, listening to the diesel engines revving up at atout 3:15 of the video, all I could think of was the creschendo towards the end of "A Day in the Life".. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 Trains magazine shot on Facebook.. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 should be one for the real thing looks like a model thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 16, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 16, 2014 UP have just uploaded a photo/video compilation to YouTube. I happily admit I got quite damp around the eyes watching it. It's a great record of an absolutely magnificent achievement to take such an immense locomotive so far successfully. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJpMAC8Uo1A&feature=youtu.be Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2014 (edited) As a different part of the coming home story just look at this video. http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6598330/452f367c/treinspotter_bijna_platgereden.html There are 2 points that stand out to me. a) It must have been awful for the crew of the stack train b.) The idiot who is pulled out of the way never stops filming. I just can't understand the mentality. Jamie Edited May 22, 2014 by jamie92208 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Yes, there are idiots all over the World........ Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 As a different part of the coming home story just look at this video. http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6598330/452f367c/treinspotter_bijna_platgereden.html There are 2 points that stand out to me. a) It must have been awful for the crew of the stack train b.) The idiot who is pulled out of the way never stops filming. I just can't understand the mentality. Jamie There has been some speculation that the person you are calling an idiot may be someone with some form of autism. Having a child with autism, I can see a lot in his behavior that would support that theory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Then he should be escorted if, as it seems, he is a danger to himself. Obviously the person who manhandled him didn’t know him. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2014 Then he should be escorted if, as it seems, he is a danger to himself. Obviously the person who manhandled him didn’t know him. Best, Pete. Quite agree Pete - if he has some sort of problem he shouldn't be allowed out by a railway line on his own. However having on one occasion to quite literally push somebody down an embankment when he refused to move from the four foot despite the sound of an approaching 'Western' which was considerably bigger than him (because I preferred giving him a shove to putting his body in a few black plastic sacks) I am firmly of the view that there are folk who are otherwise in 100% fine mental health but become mesmerised by the sight of a steam engine. It really can be like sort of hypnotism which turns off any mental or physical awareness of danger to themselves or others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Delamar Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 So what happens now with the big boy? When do they start stripping her? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gary H Posted May 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2014 (edited) As a different part of the coming home story just look at this video. http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/6598330/452f367c/treinspotter_bijna_platgereden.html There are 2 points that stand out to me. a) It must have been awful for the crew of the stack train b.) The idiot who is pulled out of the way never stops filming. I just can't understand the mentality. Jamie That also answers the question, how big is an SD70ace! Bloody big arnt they!! Ive got models of them, Ive watched probably thousands of video's of them, but the size of America's loco's and stock never ceases to amaze me! Edited May 22, 2014 by Gary H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted May 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2014 I'm not sure. There are several videos on YouTube taken during the depot day tours last weekend which contain snippets of information. At present the Big Boy seems to be in one of the surviving stalls of the original roundhouse which is off the turntable. The steam shop is to the south of this and is the remaining part of the old 'back shop' that ran off the central part of the roundhouse and orignally had cranes capable of lifting Big Boys. There is no longer any direct access from the roundhouse to the shop so locos have to be pulled out over the turntable and shunted. I think that 844 is in the steam shop getting attention over the winter. 3985 also needs it's mandatory FRA bolier inspection. I suspect that 4014 won't be stripped until there is a vacant slot in the main steam shop. They also have 5511 (as 2-10-2) on site plis 6936 (The Centennial), the Cheyenne steam rotary and 838, the parts donor 4-8-4 that keeps 844 going. The target date is May 2019 for the Golden Spike 150th so i suspect that it will get into steam in 2018 for trial runs. I also suspect that there will be a long period of inspection to produce a work schedule before it is moved into the steam shop. On the videos thare are comments that there is something wrong with the tracking of the front bogie and that needs to be removed and refurbished. So I can't fully answer your question but I would suspect that it will move in the summer when 844 is out on the road. Jamie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ngtrains.com Posted May 22, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 22, 2014 I'd be suprised if they are doing much to 3985 as they have pretty much said the Big Boy is instead of the Challenger for the forseable future. Part of the justification for doing the Big Boy is that the Challenger needs big bucks spending on its boiler. UP have also been cagey about when 844 will be ready, or at least have announced they're not announcing running dates until close to any dates they do run it. but that it won't be until much later in the year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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