been watching the videos of 4014 --I never thought I would live to see it--just amazing--hey Lionel how about making a special run of the oil burner 4014
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MTH has already made one, it's on the bottom, the Vision Line BB is on the top.
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gunrunnerjohn posted:MTH has already made one, it's on the bottom, the Vision Line BB is on the top.
Hey John - now you just need a decal of the "Big Boy" stenciling to slap on the smokebox
And you need an oil tender and the extra water cart:
Regards
Fred
jhz563 posted:gunrunnerjohn posted:MTH has already made one, it's on the bottom, the Vision Line BB is on the top.
Hey John - now you just need a decal of the "Big Boy" stenciling to slap on the smokebox
I have a silver script-writer pen, I can just write it on myself. 
Anybody know of a MP3 sound file of the whistle that can be downloaded? I have a Honeywell ActivLink doorbell that I can download MP files to, to play different sounds. I currently have a steam engine sound on mine but thought one of the Big Boy would be cool.
Been waiting for Lionel to pump out another VL Big Boy; last run was in 2014.
I’ll bet Lionel will do a transcontinental 150 special 4014 and 844 I hope
Yes, it lives!
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Those of you that live close by should treasure this opportunity to see UP 4014 in person. I live in Tennessee, so it would take me two full days of hard driving to get out there to see it. I am not able to do that because of family and work obligations. Those of you who are good videographers, please make videos like this one posted by RICKM46 for the rest of us. I'll sure be watching. I know others will too.
KUDOS to the GREAT UP for restoring the iconic Big Boy to operation! We here in Nashville, TN, Music City USA, are looking forward to our own more modest NC&StL #576 Dixie Class 4-8-4 running again! She was designed right here in Nashville, TN by the late Clarence M. Darden, then Superintendant of Machinery of the NC&StL, and built by ALCO in Schenectady, NY. She is currently undergoing restoration at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum under the expert guidance of Shane Meador. My wife, born and raised here, has a connection with the NC&StL, as her late grandfather worked for that railroad in the back office. We are proud Nashvillians who live in Germantown, North Nashville.
Mr Muffins - here would be an idea: get the Big Boy to rail to your place in Atlanta - I would pay to see it.
RickM46 posted:Mr Muffins - here would be an idea: get the Big Boy to rail to your place in Atlanta - I would pay to see it.
The Big Boy probably will never go east of the Mississippi.
But, hope springs eternal, yes?
UP does go to Memphis now over the old Rock Island. I was hoping it might go there, but I suspect it is just too big and too heavy to negotiate the curves, bridges, clearances etc. Oh well, maybe next year I can go out west where it is.
RickM46 posted:Mr Muffins - here would be an idea: get the Big Boy to rail to your place in Atlanta - I would pay to see it.
Impossible. The “Mr. Muffin” railroad through Atlanta, IN has no connection to the national rail network. They are landlocked. Everything on that railroad has to be trucked in. Hopefully this will change someday.
It has just been incredible watching the various videos of the "Big Boy" back in action. I live in Australia and we don't have anything here that even comes close to that beautiful machine. And to see it running again after all of the years sitting in a museum is just incredible.
I thought I had seen a "Big Boy" when my wife and I did a road trip across America back in 2009 (the full Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica), and we went to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. The loco we saw was not in fact the "Big Boy" but an "Allegheny".....engine No.1601. It was the largest locomotive I had ever seen in my life, and I was in awe.
I can just imagine how great it would be to see the "Big Boy" under full steam on the rails again. Kudos to the Union Pacific company for embarking on such a huge project, and pulling it off......this Australian railfan is suitably impressed.
The only thing us Australians have to boast about is we have the longest straight section of railroad track in the world.....across the Nullarbor Plain.......470 odd kilometers (about 292 miles) of straight track.....with nothing to see but flat desert!!!!
Even our train systems can't run interstate due to the different "gauge" of the tracks in nearly every state......what were our forefathers thinking when they were planning our rail system. Here in south-east Queensland where I live we have a relatively "narrow gauge", and to get freight trains to come up here from New South Wales, we had to add an extra rail to our existing outside rail for the wider gauge wagons and locomotives to get into our capital city - Brisbane. In this location, from the border into the South Brisbane freight yards we truly have a "three rail system".
Anyway, getting off thread.....I am so excited to see the "Big Boy" back in action, and hope to actually see it for myself next time we visit the USA.
Regards.....Peter (Buco tragic) on the fabulous Gold Coast in sunny Queensland, Australia.
Rich Melvin posted:RickM46 posted:Mr Muffins - here would be an idea: get the Big Boy to rail to your place in Atlanta - I would pay to see it.
Impossible. The “Mr. Muffin” railroad through Atlanta, IN has no connection to the national rail network. They are landlocked. Everything on that railroad has to be trucked in. Hopefully this will change someday.
Rats!! Would have been a life event!!
Hello guys, I purchase one the last runs of Lionel's Big Boys #4014. I want to make a cover for the tender to turn it into a oil tender from a coal tender. Does any one have any photos or prints of one you can send me, it would be much appreciated.
gunrunnerjohn posted:MTH has already made one, it's on the bottom, the Vision Line BB is on the top.
John, do you know if Henning's still has the MTH 4014 with an oil tender? I need some photos of the top of the tender.
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