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Can we talk about epic ness for a sec

Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 15:36:16 No.1215050 View View Reply Original Report

ALRIGHT THIS IS CALLED A BIG BOY. BUILT BY ALCO FOR UNION PACIFIC BACK IN THE 40’S JUST AFTER THE PEARL HARBOUR ATTACK. BUILT FOR SHERMAN HILL ONE OF THE STEEPEST GRADES IN THE WORLD THIS THING HAULED ASS. UNION PACIFIC IS CURRENTY RESTORING THIS BEAST FOR THE 150TH ANNEVERSRY OF THE DRIVEING OF THE GOLDEN SPIKE NEXT YEAR. Can we talk about this and other steam locomotives in this thread?

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:38:43 No.1215074 Report

Quoted By: >>1215079 >>1215209

Maybe I was too aggressive

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:41:20 No.1215077 Report

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>>1215050
Steam locomotives look cool but perform horribly when in revenue service. RRs could not replace them fast enough when diesels came.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:42:24 No.1215079 Report

Quoted By: >>1215209

>>1215074
nah you're good, but you seem to be rather new if you expected a reply in about an hour.

Post more bigboy pics.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:48:11 No.1215082 Report

Quoted By: >>1215095 >>1217097

I thought the whole restoration of this thing was a clusterfuck and it wasn't happening anymore.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:52:48 No.1215085 Report

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I hear big boy takes 60-72 hours to start from cold.

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 16:55:59 No.1215086 Report

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4014

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 17:03:28 No.1215091 Report

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Ok anon who thought the project was abandoned go on Union Pacific YouTube channel and find the latest update on the big boy

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 17:18:57 No.1215095 Report

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>>1215082
>clusterfuck
yes, it was in worse condition than first thought
>wasn't happing
they still think they an have it done for the sesquicentennial

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 17:27:26 No.1215100 Report

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I have faith

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Anonymous Wed 18 Jul 2018 22:38:48 No.1215209 Report

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>>1215074
>>1215079
Yeah, /n/ is probably the second slowest board on 4chan, after /3/.
And because you asked for more Big Boy pics, have one of Steamtown's very own 4012

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Anonymous Thu 19 Jul 2018 01:24:37 No.1215273 Report

Quoted By: >>1216164 >>1217288

Literally better than UP

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Anonymous Sat 21 Jul 2018 03:41:22 No.1216164 Report

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>>1215273
611's streamlining is utterly A E S T H E T I C

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Anonymous Sat 21 Jul 2018 05:07:43 No.1216178 Report

Quoted By: >>1216181

I never understood how the electric lamps on steam engines work. Are they battery powered? Is there a little electric generator on board? What did they do on early steam engines? Oil lamps?

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Anonymous Sat 21 Jul 2018 05:16:39 No.1216181 Report

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>>1216178
kerosene lamps, followed by 36 volt electric systems powered off a steam generator

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 14:34:43 No.1217097 Report

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>>1215082
They're starting to put the loco back to together and are gonna have it running before next May.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 21:58:56 No.1217288 Report

Quoted By: >>1218699 >>1218703

>>1215273
Gentlemen

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 19:15:11 No.1218699 Report

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>>1217288

>not x-8-8-x
>don't care

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 19:18:21 No.1218703 Report

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>>1217288

>not x-8-8-x
>not compound
>don't care

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 20:58:21 No.1218729 Report

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>>1215077
It's mostly because they're maintenance hogs. The N&W J Class was actually pretty good with automatic lubrication and such, and diesels took awhile to reach the reliability to replace them. Here's a video made in 1945 by N&W.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w48Bqq1JmE
Still, there is one railroad in the US that still uses steam power for freight revenue service. Straussburg started running revenue freight again in the early 2010's and since they usually have several steam locos fired up and steaming for their excursions anyway, they use them to haul freight.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 20:59:23 No.1218730 Report

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>>1218729

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 21:00:44 No.1218731 Report

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 21:20:11 No.1218735 Report

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There have been several instances over the years when Union Pacific's #884 or #3985 hav been out on excursion duty and have been called in to help a freight that lost a locomotive to mechanical problems. Pic related is one of the few times I know of where a steam engine was specifically assigned to haul frieght on a Class I mainline since steam went away. The locomotive is Santa Fe #3751, a 4-8-4 Northern. She's owned and operated by the San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society. SF #3751 runs regular excursions, normally from San Bernardino to Los Angeles. Usually Amtrak or one of the local transit authorities bring coaches and a diesel for head end power for the cars to San Bernardino, but for whatever reason in January of 1999, #3751 had to pick up its passenger consist in LA. Rather than have a locomotive deadheading on the mainline the 60 some odd miles, the railroad assigned #3751 a freight consist of 46 intermodal well cars. The car directly behind the engine is a baggage car to carry specialized equipment such as the large air driven grease guns as well as additional crew.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 21:28:18 No.1218736 Report

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#3751 running from LA toSan Bernardino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp-b4Ce4Mf4
#3751 high speed pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eggYBVAYiI

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 22:00:39 No.1218742 Report

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>>1215050
OMG! That is so fucking cool, my eyes are bleeding.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jul 2018 23:59:42 No.1218764 Report

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>>1218730
That is so fucking beautiful.

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Anonymous Mon 30 Jul 2018 15:31:57 No.1219410 Report

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Big Boy and Phase III Veranda Turbine double header.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Aug 2018 01:12:13 No.1221536 Report

Quoted By: >>1221851 >>1221860

What kind of connection did they use on articulated locomotives that was flexible in order to get steam from the boiler to the cylinders?

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Anonymous Tue 07 Aug 2018 00:13:19 No.1221851 Report

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>>1221536
Answer me pls

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Anonymous Tue 07 Aug 2018 00:44:12 No.1221860 Report

Quoted By: >>1221893

>>1221536
It depended on the design. Typically it involved high pressure steam being routed through the pivot using a ball joint or something similar while low pressure steam just used flexible pipes or hoses.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Aug 2018 02:14:49 No.1221893 Report

Quoted By: >>1221921

>>1221860
Interesting. Didn't know they had hoses that would handle the pressure and temperature of steam in such volume.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Aug 2018 03:50:07 No.1221921 Report

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>>1221893
Boiler pressure was only around 300psi at most. When I fill oxygen tanks at work I'm putting 2000psi through a flexible hose, 300psi is nothing compared to that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Aug 2018 04:15:00 No.1221927 Report

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>>1221921
PSI isn't the only factor here

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