UP Big Boy tour continuance

Looks like the Big Boy X4014 is making another loop this year, and coming thru St Louis which means thru Hermann Too!!  Aug 29.

We missed it the last time through here.
Gonna try again. Do you have any dates?

What is the Engine that is on display in the Henry Ford Museum ? It is supposed to be able to pull a fully loaded train up the hills out east at 70 mph .  We were told that they couldn't shovel coal fast enough into it's firebox that they had to equip it with auger feed.

Thanks D Miller !

50 years ago, I met and made a friend on an old steam engineer. I loved his tales of running steam trains back before ww2. He ran engines thru the Midwest. Then he hitched a ride out West. He said he never came back to run the "tea pots" they had in the Midwest. He retired running mountain engines. They were far heavier than the prairie engines here. He said they rode like a Cadillac while the prairie engines rode like a ford. He spoke about steam wrecks and retrieving wrecked or broken engines. He told me about 1 that derailed off a bridge taking the tender with it. They were able to recover the 3 crew dead crew members but according to him the engine and tender were still buried in the mud. He had many more stories, now that I've started thinking about them, I'll probably be up 1/2 the night attempting to remember them. I'll miss this exibitation, I was able to see the 3985 in Boone Iowa several years ago. It was impressive too.

DMiller wrote: BTW, the Fire Box on a Big Boy is roughly half again as long as the others noted, just HUGE!! My own Self in X4006 in the St Louis Museum of Transportation.