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  • montanajoe
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    :D:D:D:D:D
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  • Ditch-Runner
    thanks
    I do like them just the ability of the people who designed and built the huge machines is amazing in its own right . something nostalgic watching a stem engine under load and full out :D
    but my oldest son lives for the trains ;) he travels the country photographing and riding every chance away from from work he gets even local specialty trains that come by ( we live a couple miles away fro the RR tracks ) and I know is supporting member of the steam engine 765 in Indy.
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  • TRAP55
    My first train ride was a Big Boy when I was 4 years old, very cool to see em running again. $265,000 to build one of those back in 1941!
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  • jimdeere
    In the town I grew up in, Electric locomotives of The Virginian RR ran from the coal fields of Southern WV to Norfolk on one side of the New River and the diesels of Norfolk Western ran on the other side.
    I have a faint memory of riding In Dad?s car and watching the sparks from the overhead wires.
    The whole town turned out the day they demolished the smoke stacks of the power plant in the early 60?s.
    https://youtu.be/NO2Ji697aBo
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  • spasmcreek
    many many years ago a steam engine made a memorial run on the ATSF line across Kansas...i remember watching it come thru but cannot remember when that was.....quite a sight
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  • mjrfd99
    Thanks. Love steam and Queen ROCKS!
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  • Idahobound
    Thanks for the video. That is the only thing I miss about living in WY. I had a lot of access to the steam shop in Cheyenne. I spent a number of evenings climbing around on those engines. It was also neat to see them running.
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  • truthful
    I never understood why they didn't run those big steamers the other way around so that the engineer could see a whole lot better not blinded by steam and the huge boiler. And the smoke and cinders would be ejected behind him not in front.
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  • us55840
    The Allegheny 1601 is bigger.... ;)

    https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM298Y
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    truthful wrote:
    I never understood why they didn't run those big steamers the other way around so that the engineer could see a whole lot better not blinded by steam and the huge boiler. And the smoke and cinders would be ejected behind him not in front.

    They did have such a thing, and it was known as a "cab forward". As far as I know they were mainly used in the Continental Divide region, as well as the Cascades, and Sierra Nevadas. Places where there were long tunnels on railroads.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=cab+forward+steam+engine&oq=Cab+Forward+&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.8572j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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  • gruntled2
    https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2019-10-03/big-boy-locomotive-train-trip
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