Gods of Iron

DMIR Yellowstone.  For sure!

4024 U.P. BIGBOY

Yeah, the Big Boy was designed specifically for the Wasatch Front climb.  I imagine Mt. Olympus was no more difficult . . .

What European locos could have made it?

Argueabley the most powerful locomotive ever made, surely a Y6 could make it!

Add some help and bring 175 loaded coal hoppers up Mount Olympus.

Perhaps not the most powerful but my vote would go to N&W No 1218 because she is my personal favorite articulated locomotive. I'm a visual guy and normally give primary consideration to how they look. And it's usually a close call anyway!

Very cool Rick!

They've climbed Mount Washington so why not Mount Olympus?

Bob

My favorite God of Iron was also not biggest.  It is the Southern Pacific 2472, P-10 4-6-2 Pacific.  But...I've ridden it many times and it has a personal connection to me.  

On my layout...I'd use my Lionel GS-4 Daylight to climb Mt. Olympus.

Matt

I am thinking late model Union Pacific Big Boy (4023) or a Southern Pacific AC-12 Cab Forward. 

They are small, but a pair of 0-4-0T's built by VULCAN in Wilkes-Barre share passenger duties at Pioneer Tunnel in Ashland, PA, along the Reading main to Shamokin.

Here is the VULCAN 0-4-0 that I ran at the Pioneer tunnel over the last few summers.

MOM and me.

RickO,

Many thanks for the Y6b videos.

Great !

I dunno about all this Gods stuff; the father of a friend of mine was a locomotive machinist for the Louisville & Nashville in Birmingham and Mobile in both the steam and early diesel era, and I'm told that he said that whenever he heard a whistle or horn it just made his bones ache. He may have used the name of one of the Gods, but I imagine that it was more in vain than admiration.