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Huge Big Boy steam locomotive coming back to life
Yahoo News (AP) ^
| April 15, 2014
| DAN ELLIOTT (AP)
Posted on 04/15/2014 4:27:36 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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The American steel mills no longer have the technology to cast the one piece frames for these engines, so to build one from scratch would take a decade to re learn the process.
It is truly a rush to drive one of these engines.
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:30:55 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:39:21 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Navy Patriot
You an engineer? I’ve chased the 3985 and 4449 and 2472 around. Stayed up all night and driven insane drives for a good shot. :-)
/foamer
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:39:22 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: sasquatch
To: Navy Patriot
I am not a particular railroad buff but there really is something about those old steam engines which is impressive as all get out.
I have read that nuclear powered ships are technically steam powered as the atomic material is used to create the steam.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:40:22 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Navy Patriot
I visited the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield MI when I was a kid. There were a bunch of locomotives that were a wall of iron to me. (I was about 8.)
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:40:36 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Navy Patriot
Steam locomotives were not replaced due to lack of power or speed, but for the increased efficiency and ease of maintenance of diesels. Those old engines pulled hard and were damn fast.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:43:14 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Navy Patriot
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:44:18 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Navy Patriot
The boiler’s fired by coal. Look for the EPA to shut down this project ASAP.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:45:05 PM PDT
by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: Cyber Liberty
there is one in Scranton Pa
and one in the Midwest Rail museum
(Big Boys that is)
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:47:42 PM PDT
by
aumrl
(let's keep it real Conservatives)
To: Cyber Liberty
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:48:39 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: luvbach1
They were all over the place when I was a kid.
They were filthy.
No thanks.
.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:49:52 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:50:05 PM PDT
by
hout8475
To: Jeff Chandler
IIRC today’s engines are driven by electric motors.
To: AppyPappy
Yes, they are...and diesel motors turn the electric turbines.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:55:11 PM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: hout8475
Diesel was my favorite when playing Thomas with my son! We both drive diesel trucks now! lol
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:57:14 PM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
To: AppyPappy
They’re slowed down by electric motors, too.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:57:24 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Riley
You an engineer?I are an engineer, but not a railroad engineer.
Fortunately, my uncle spent his life driving for the Santa Fe, and I was able to drive a couple of their best big steam under his watchful eye.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:57:54 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: Mears
I saw them (big steam engines) at the Railroad Fair in Chicago in 1949 and in films. Never lived near enough to railroad tracks to see them.
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posted on
04/15/2014 4:58:30 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished)
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