SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California State Railroad Museum and its support group, the California State Railroad Museum Foundation, have launched an effort to restore Santa Fe steam locomotive No. 1010, a 2-6-2 built by Baldwin in 1901, for use on the museum’s Sacramento Southern excursion railroad.
The project — the largest steam restoration project undertaken by the museum since its opening in 1981 — is described in the current edition of the Museum Foundation’s “On Track” magazine.
Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 heads west after leaving Evanston, Wyo., on the way to Ogden as part of the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s Completion on May 8, 2019. Big Boy No. 4014 was coupled with Living Legend No. 844 steam locomotive for the trip. (Photo: Steve Griffin, Deseret News)
Union Pacific sent an email that BIG BOY 4014 will be doing a tour in 2024. The tour is expected to reach all four corners of Union Pacific’s 23-state system with anticipated stops in: Chicago, Illinois, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, Houston, Texas, Nampa, Idaho, Portland, Oregon, Roseville, California, Salt Lake City, Utah. Hoping I get to see it in person next year.
Back around 2008(?) I was passing by the railroad yard at Mock’s Bottom in Portland, coming home from work – and there she was in all her glory! I parked my scooter across the road from it, and just walked over and around it (apparently so did about 200 people as well!) It was a totally unexpected gift, and my wife wanted to know why I was an hour late getting home. I wish I’d had the brains to go back and get pictures, but was so strapped for cash I didn’t have any film for my camera!
You can BETCHER ASS I’ll be there for the Salt Lake appearance now that I’m living just north of it (Ogden area) and I will get photos of it. I’ll get you some good photos if possible. Digital film is cheap…
I had a brief moment of happiness for pic #1….until I read it was “The California State Railroad Museum and its support group, the California State Railroad Museum Foundation” that was involved.
Could someone tell me if this is a true “state” run organization or just a private group of folks with some public funding.
If it is a true state organization; then that train will never get rebuilt.
Don’t these Cali-fornicators realize that locomotive runs on COAL??
They convert them to fuel oil nowadays, ain’t too many coal depots left. Still pisses off the enviroweenies, which I consider a plus!
Cool set
I used to enjoy visiting the California State Railroad Musuem every chance I got when traveling on business in California. When you look at the mechanical complexity of something like a Big Boy you can see why they switched to diesel electric the first chance they got. Great iconic collection of pics this week!
CedreQ, you have outdid yerself on this weeks collection – nice job!
I wouldn’t be caught dead on that monorail train, think of the flywheels needed to keep that POS upright!
How do we know for sure Phil didn’t convert the Sprite, eh?
IIRC that monster wheel-looking thingy was used for spreading ballast trackside?
The “transformer-like” Big Gun was another stupid idea gone wrong. Some kind of German or Soviet abortion??
#13 looks like a rig used to go whitewater rafting writ large. I wonder where it was used (Pacific Northwest, obviously) and WHY it was built. Anybody? Bueller??
It was a donkey engine mounted on those timber skids to haul around by dozer. The donkey engine was used for the log lift and yarder. The skid where cut that way to skid over dirt and rocks with out digging in too much.
Igor, the Wheel on the Open-Frame Car is a Hydro Turbine for a Dam Powerplant. It is loaded Sideways, and it is mounted on a Vertical Shaft in operation; Water flows Downward through it, and out the Sides. The End facing the Photographer is the Bottom. A Shaft on the other End turns the Generator, on a Floor above it. This was probably for one of the Big Dams out West.
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That ‘Gun’ looks like some Photochop of a German “DORA” Cannon from WWII. The Tracks, Cut and Camo Net beside it look identical to some Pics I’ve seen of that Gun on the “Ostfront”.