[ET] That Genset Foamer Wrote:
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> There's some interesting discussion about all on
> RYPN...
>
> First of all, it was UP's Executives who pushed
> Dickens into the 4014 restoration, not some legacy
> of Dickens's. Several RYPN users state on the
> previous page did state Dickens does have a
> considerable in the Denver railroad preservation
> scene.
>
> However, much of the delays stem from UP Steam
> adopting the Six Sigma program and requiring lots
> of bureaucracy, and calibration, and new tool
> fabrication, and so on. It's the same reason as to
> why UP replaced a lot of the staybolts on UP 844,
> even those from the 2004 rebuild. Documenting the
> principles does have its merits from an liability
> standpoint but I digress...
>
> [www.rypn.org]
> 132
>
> BTW, most preservationists balked at the
> restoration of a Big Boy, saying that you would
> have to part the dozen or so of others out to
> restore one. UP intends, by the Six Sigma
> protocols, to pretty much "jack up the whistle and
> build a new locomotive underneath it"--even parts
> with aesthetic blemishes are even to be replaced
> according to executive directive. Better that, and
> the 4014 (and sister locomotives) being stored
> under a roof, as opposed to being outdoors in an
> institution that may come under fire for the value
> of its land...even Steamtown or the 1361
> Restoration crew have that to their chargin.

There is NO Six Sigma going on in Cheyenne or anywhere
else on the UP.