Big Boy No. 4014

A cool surprise.  The Union Pacific Railroad is moving an engine to Cheyenne, WY for restoration.  It is one of just a handful of huge locomotives built to move freight here in the west.  It just happed to overnight at the historic rail station here in Ogden Utah.  It is 132 feet long and weights 1.2 million pounds.  We saw one other Big Boy at the Steamtown NHS in Pennsylvania but out on real tracks (even with a tow engine) they are even more magnificent.  Maybe we will see No. 4014 running one day…five or more years from now.

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