Big Boy 4014 coming thru WI tomorrow

[Hawk-in-Wi]

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

Union Pacific’s historic Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014

will be in Wisconsin tomorrow , check the link above for location and times

 

[exavid]

That will be something to see! When I was a young lad my mother would take my brother and I down town in Tacoma at the train station so we could watch the big steamers arriving. They were big engines and usually two in tandem. Once we saw a triple engine steam train. Loved hearing and seeing them starting out, huffing, chuffing and puffing, big drivers skidding on the track was wonderful to a ten year old.

 

[protoolman]

Son saw it in Duluth the other day.

 

[Hawk-in-Wi]

Ya wished I could take the day off and go see it, but we're short on drivers right now and there's no one to fill in , I'll be running up I94 so I'll be within 20 miles or less of 2 stops but too early in the morning to see it, will actually cross the tracks it'll be running on twice but around 2 hours before it goes by

 

[Bull Barrel]

Iirc 844 is with it.
It was here last year and I was able to see it.

 

[Mickey D]

Big Boy 4014 is worth seeing.
We saw it in Ogden, UT for the Transcontinental celebration. Pull right up in from of us and stopped. Unbelievably fascinating.