Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> Steaem Fanatic:
>
> The UP 4014's move from the Fairplex to the
> former
> SP -- now UP -- facility at West Colton will,
> according
> to what I have read on TO, will be at night, and
> the
> 4014 most definitely NOT be under steam. That
> locomotive will need a lot of work -- several
> years,
> at least, before he (a "Big Boy" is a "he",
> right?)
> will be able to be steamed up. The 4014 will be
> towed dead in a short train that most likely will
> have a number of other cars to assist in braking.
> Ed Dickens, the UP's Manager of their Steam
> Program,
> has said that they are going to work on the 4014's
>
> brakes, so they will be able to help slow down
> the
> 4014 when needed during the move.
>
> Remember: the move from his present site in the
> Fairplex
> to West Colton will be made AT NIGHT. That is
> because the 4014
> would be greatly in the way of the Metrolink
> trains that
> run on that track if he were to use that track
> during the
> daytime hours. Metrolink also now owns that
> track.
>
> The UP Steam Crew is also working on the 2 steam
> locomotives
> that are in front of the 4014 and are thus in the
> way of The
> Big Move. They have to be moved out of the way in
> order for
> the 4014 to get out of the Fairplex.
>
> Margaret


Part of that move will be made at night, part will be done during the day. I believe the intent is to begin the move onto the Metrolink San Gabriel sub right on a Saturday at 10 PM and then move to a siding until Sunday night when it will then move to Basset and switch to the UP Alhambra sub onto a siding there. Then Tuesday and Wednesday days move to West Colton. Another TO poster suggests that after moving onto the Metrolink San Gabriel sub that it move first east a bit to North Pomona and park on the BNSF Pasadena sub since there will be no traffic on that line on the weekend. Then Sunday it can move from there West to Basset.