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Title: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: 11290 on March 31, 2009, 11:23:43 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Bill Heher on March 31, 2009, 11:26:19 AM

They need a miniature C/L field with a plane doing wingovers. Should be easy for guys with that much time and talent!

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Robert McHam on March 31, 2009, 12:47:45 PM

Wow!

Robert

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Bill Hodges on March 31, 2009, 03:08:56 PM

Absolutely amazing.  I would love to see it for real.

Bill Hodges

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: EddyR on March 31, 2009, 03:54:45 PM

There is a gigantic layout being built in Denver and it is up and running but it doesn't compair to this one. In the same building they have a Big Boy. How many know what a Big Boy is?
Ed

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Tom Weedman on March 31, 2009, 04:31:49 PM

ED the BIG BOY is the biggest steam locomotive built to pull freight over the rocky mountains for the union pacific railway I think
                     Tom       AMA63672


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Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Keith Spriggs on March 31, 2009, 10:37:22 PM

Here is a picture taken a few years ago when a Big Boy made a run from Wyoming to either Houston or New Orleans. Compare the size to the size of the men that are servicing it.

(http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12069.0;attach=40182;image)

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Ralph Wenzel (d) on April 01, 2009, 06:09:53 AM

Wow! And I thought the exhibit at Balboa Park was impressive . . .  Well, it is, but there's impressive and then there's impressive!

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Bob Disharoon on April 01, 2009, 06:48:58 AM

I think the Big Boy now sits outside at the Baltimore train museum

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Will Hinton on April 01, 2009, 07:18:59 AM

Hmmmmm, I just had a Big Boy the other day, tasted yummy.

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: EddyR on April 01, 2009, 11:33:06 AM

I have seen 4 of the Big Boys but none of them will ever run again. There were 25 Big Boys built. The one in Denver is at the Forney Museum.
Ed

Title: Re: Way off topic but very cool for modelers
Post by: Matt Colan on April 01, 2009, 05:51:25 PM

That is amazing.  There is a train show on the history channel that had them featured in a little spot.  The grease they use to grease the wheels looks like a rubber stick when it is not being pushed into the wheels

here is an airport being constructed.  Also very cool

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUqMbtMcECE[/youtube]