Big Boy doing Little work Wrote:
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> Foamer w/glass half full (of beer) wrote: "I
> didn't see the Big Boy and don't know if I ever
> will see it. However, based on much of the
> Internet commentary about the Big Boy trips in
> Wyoming, Utah and the Midwest, many railway
> enthusiasts were thrilled to watch it in action."
>
> All of the video I have seen, with the exception
> of her topping Archer Hill on the first day of
> this series of trips, shows her working a drifting
> throttle. There simply is not enough train to make
> her work much at all. She could handle 8-10 times
> that much tonnage on the prairie. The present
> consist would be child's play for 844, let alone
> 4014.
>
> The excessive, nearly constant whistling has
> gotten tedious as well. It seems like Ed Dickens
> is suspended from the whistle cord to keep himself
> from falling out, as he leans way out the cab
> window like some Hollywood Casey Jones.
>
> You can tell that the hero-worship of the guy has
> completely gone to his head.
>
> Some of the worst of the gushing fanboy silliness
> comes from the so-called "professionals" at Trains
> Magazine.

You Sir, are a DICK!