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Trains News Wire EXCLUSIVE: Big Boy No. 4014 move will be later this winter
Will this, if recolllection is correct, make the museum personnel feel good?
In West Oakland, we started getting run-thru power from the D&RGW and UP in the late '60s.
F units from Colorado…B-units with hostler controls, and from Omaha we got 6 axle EMD 3000 hp units numbered somewhere north of 3120.
SD40-2’s gestated, fledged in 1972 (?)…if I’m right, UP 3105 is an imposter…in a museum display??
UP 3105 is actually a former Mopac diesel. Delivered as MP 6027 (786181-8) in June 1979. As far as I know, this is the second UP 3105, I do not know the identity of the first UP 3105.
Yesterday, I, on this computer, hoped for a Feliz Navidad and Prospero An(y)o Nuevo, a sus todos to Roberto after getting his history of the current UP 3105; my forecasting said the original 6-axle 3000hp UP3105 was in a purchase of a group or, series of groups of series of SD40’s, short hood, forward from it, and DB-equipped; but without the HTC truck with its “sticking out like sore-thumbs” shock absorbors on the center axle journal.
Also lettered conspicuously on their cabs were “DEPENDABLE TRANSPORTATION” and “ROUTE OF THE STREAMLINERS.”
The Armour Yellow faded to a pastel yellow too, unless it started out that color.
I don’t want to disrespect nor fail to respect his generosity and scholarship. Thanks. Gracias.
It doesn’t make sense to move the Big Boy from Pomona via the Mentrolink (ex-SF) to San Bernardino, then south to the UP yard (Colton). Once the Big Boyis in San Bernardino, it is on the BNSF/UP tracks ready to head north up over Cajon Pass. Colton is out of the way.
Imposter or not, it’s hard to think of an SD40-2 as a preservation candidate. It makes 1972, when the model was introduced, seem like only yeaterday!
Why didn’t the U.P. send the 2-10-2 sitting at the shops instead of the diesel and caboose? From what I understand, they have no plans of restoring this unit? Steamer for steamer makes more sense!
The 4014 has to go to Colton for more work before it can go to Cheyenne.
Hoping that the move from Colton to Cheyenne will be well publicized, as I for one plan on making the 4 hour trek west from our home to Cheyenne to watch its arrival. Thanks for the update here - seems better or more timely than what I’ve gotten through the UP site thus far.
for more updates on the 4014 go to my YOUTUBE Channel richarepom or my website imagesofpomona.blogspot.com