Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy 4023'
A recent rummage in a few modelling boxes uncovered this Revell HO plastic kit that I put together and weathered some 35 years ago. A sobering thought is that it has sat in its box for longer than 4023 stayed in active service.
On a trip to Colorado in 1997 I saw UP 4005 on static display at Forney in Denver.
* The 25 'Big Boy' locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they were reassigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled 6000 ton freights over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming.
Ousted by the increasing cost of coal and the refinement of Diesel Electric traction they were gone by 1959 but some were put in serviceable store and lasted until 1962.
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 'Big Boy 4023'
A recent rummage in a few modelling boxes uncovered this Revell HO plastic kit that I put together and weathered some 35 years ago. A sobering thought is that it has sat in its box for longer than 4023 stayed in active service.
On a trip to Colorado in 1997 I saw UP 4005 on static display at Forney in Denver.
* The 25 'Big Boy' locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they were reassigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled 6000 ton freights over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming.
Ousted by the increasing cost of coal and the refinement of Diesel Electric traction they were gone by 1959 but some were put in serviceable store and lasted until 1962.