Re: UP 4014 fired up today
Author: Buxton Jacksich
Date: 04-30-2019 - 14:03
Hail the 4014 Wrote:
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> Pactrail Wrote:
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> > I don’t get it. Not too long ago every
> > existing Big Boy was stuffed and mounted never
> to
> > be
> > heard from again. Now we at least got to hear
> > 4014 talk on her own. To me that alone is a
> vast
> > improvement over stuffed and mounted. As to the
> > rest lets wait and see.
>
> The 4014 isn't talking on her own. She wouldn't
> even be this far along if it wasn't for the 3985.
> Most steam restorations are done on their own
> merit, not stealing parts off another locomotive
> that would operate to get another going for their
> own ego. That's kind of counter productive.
>
> AHT
Stick it where the sun don't shine!