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UP 4014 Big Boy

            Louisiana Trip August 19-23, 2021
The Great 4014 Train Chase

Keeping his eyes on the rails, Ed Dickens, senior manager of the Union Pacific Heritage Operations hangs out the locomotive's window while maintaining control of the 604 ton iron horse, UP Big Boy 4014. 

The 4014 is one of 25 Big Boy class locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) for the Union Pacific Railroad from 1941 to 1948.  The simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive has the longest engine body of any reciprocating steam locomotive at 132 feet long, It was the second-heaviest steam locomotive ever built, weighing in with a total weight (Locomotive Tender combined) at 599 tons.  

The Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch mountains between Ogden, Utah and Green River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they were reassigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled freight over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming.  

With the shift to diesel-electric power by most railroads, the reign of the Big Boy was coming to an end.  The last revenue train hauled by a Big Boy ended its run early in the morning on July 21, 1959.  Most were placed in storage and only four remained in operational condition at Green River, Wyoming until 1962.  Only 8 Big Boys survived and placed in museums throughout the United States.

ALCO built the 4014 in November 1941 and delivered to Union Pacific the following month.  The 4014 traveled 1,031,205 miles during its twenty years of revenue service.  No. 4014 completed its final revenue run on July 21, 1959, just hours before the last revenue run by any Big Boy.  Union Pacific retired 4014 on December 7, 1961 and soon afterwards the railroad donated the locomotive to the Southern California chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society in Pomona, California.

In 2012, Union Pacific officials announced that they would obtain a Big Boy locomotive, restore it to operating condition, and use it in excursion service.  The 4014 was chosen and  Southern California chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society agreed to transfer ownership of No. 4014 back to Union Pacific on July 23, 2013.  On November 14, 2013 the 4014 was pulled from the museum's grounds to began the long journey to UP's steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, arriving on May 8, 2014.  On May 1, 2019, the 4014 moved under it's own power for the first time in more than 59 years.

Louisiana 3219 at Louisiana Highway 18, in the Moonshine Community, St. James Parish, Louisiana. 11:39 AM, August 20, 2021.

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