Big Boy at College World Series

The UP is a class act as a railroad in my opinion.

Art

Somehow, I don't believe that #4014 was towed dead all the way from Cheyenne to Omaha, on that VERY busy UP main line. Besides, there already is #4023 on display up on the bluff overlooking Interstate 80, in Omaha. However, the 4023 isn't going anywhere else, since it was taken up there but heavy equipment mover, and cost close to a million dollars to get it up there.

". However, the 4023 isn't going anywhere else, since it was taken up there but heavy equipment mover, and cost close to a million dollars to get it up there."

i remember that. Didn't one of the bolsters break crossing the track and they fouled the main for a while?

If there is a steam engine, then thinking of a UP steam engine that is cosmetically all together and close if it is too far to tow from Omaha?

As a side question, the 844 anywhere near operational yet?.

Yes, one of the "dollies" on the heavy equipment rig failed, and blocked the BNSF track, i.e. NOT the UP main line.

Mr.Dickens gave the end of 2015 year estimate just recently.  Maybe HW knows more than Mr. D or Mr. D does not know what he is talking about or possibly Mr. D is just puffing.

OK, now I understand. First, the UP currently has some "executive" passengers parked on that display track. Second, there are no other UP steam locomotives in the Omaha area, that the UP would have access in order to tow one there. There is a UP FEF over in Council Bluffs, in a museum, but certainly not towable.

Yes, even if UP did have an operable steam locomotive of any size, and it was "out and about", such an activity would have been well advertised, and discussed all over the internet. Thus, nothing of the sort happened.

Hard to say what the original poster saw on TV.

"Hard to say what the original poster saw on TV."

A Big Boy. Could have been reporter taking some liberties. I reported what I saw. It was a quick view at best.

The world series is across the highway from the bluff with 4023 and the old Centennial on display isn't it? I remember driving by it several times on I-80.

I don't know. Every time I have drive by there, I'm always looking up on that bluff at the 4023 and the 6900.

It is quite majestic as come up from the river and it juts out on your right, going East bound is not quite the same.

Thanks Ron, I sure know a Big Boy when I see it.

the world series is no longer across the highway from the display.  It moved downtown a couple of miles north.  there is no steam engine on display there.  Perhaps, they flashed a shot of the 4023 on the bluff and led you to believe it was right at the ballpark.