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Sinds begin april rijdt Europorte op maandag en zaterdag een keteltrein naar Gent-Darsen. De heenrit is afkomstig uit Frankrijk, de exacte plaats is ons tot nu toe nog onbekend. Op zaterdagmiddag vindt de heenrit naar Gent plaats, de trein is dan beladen met petroleumproducten bestemd voor de Sea Tank Terminal op de Zuiddok in de Gentse haven.
De terugrit vindt op maandagmorgen plaats.
Deze rit gingen wij op 31 oktober, dat nog best zonnig en warm was voor de tijd van het jaar, fotograferen in Desselgem.
Om 10:52 verliet de 4014 en haar keteltjes de Zuiddok en reed over lijn 204 richting Gent-Zeehaven bundel, alwaar er nog moest gewacht worden tot 12:04 vooraleer men kon vertrekken richting Somain.
In Waregem gepasseerd kwam de 4014 op ons afgereden tegen een vrij grote snelheid. Op de foto zien we de 4014 en haar sleepje ketels richting Kortrijk rijden.
31-10-2016
42872: Gent-Darsen > Tourcoing
Ā© Noach Taillieu
Op 28 april 2016 om 18.33 was het dan zover: de eerste Eurostar E320 op Nederlandse bodem. Het stel heeft net de Belgisch/Nederlandse grens bij Nispen achter zich gelaten en is met een gangetje van 40 km/u op weg naar Roosendaal.
CFL 'Traxx' locomotive 4014 makes its way out of City with the 16:44 Luxembourg-Troisverges.
This is a nice easy location from within the city as long as you have the weather and can time it right- fortunately everything came together on this occasion.
The clouds had set in solid by the time the train arrived at Woodbine and made the service stop there. It didn't hold back the many who lined the roadsides at the often shot curve between Woodbine and Logan.
While most others went to Columbus to see 4014 stopped I jump straight to my spot at Schuyler. After a long wait 4014 rolled through with a decent amount of steam.
Nearing Eau Claire WI. with business train PSPAL2-23.
Not having been along here to chase in years, I wasn't sure where to go and intense traffic with 100s of cars along the route meant I had to settle for some wedge shots. But still it was a magnificent Steam Engine to see and hear.
Also, my usual sites were grown over with trees but I did find a small amount of reflective water.
There were no people in the shot here since it's private property of a company that has strict safety standards.
There were employees in reflective vests keeping people away. So I went to their main office and at first they were adamant that for safety reasons no non-employees were allowed on the site. After a discussion they allowed us to get to this spot with an escort (we, of course, had our own PPE).
I was glad we had this chance since everyone in Eau Claire and Altoona was on the road and we just couldn't get to where I wanted.
After packing up and heading north, I beat feet to an old favorite location at Shipley, just south of Nevada where the train would turn to head west towards Omaha on the E/W Mainline.
60 years ago, 4-8-8-4's were running out their last miles between Cheyenne and Laramie, WY. For the first time since then, a Big Boy charges out of Cheyenne. Truly a breathtaking sight.
It's a Friday, haven't been track side for over a week, so I guess I have to dig up something for today's post. How about '4014 in Your Face Friday'!?
Engineer Ed has 4014 and train rolling right along at a good clip, at Harvard, California on October 10, 2019. Ahead is an overnight stay in Yermo, California, which lays only a few miles further west. UP now says we'll all have to wait until 2021 to see 4014 out on the line again. Fair enough!
Union Pacific 4014 is a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-8-8-4 Big Boy-type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad. Built in 1941 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, No. 4014 is the only operating Big Boy of the eight that remain in existence.
The locomotive operated in revenue service until 1959. It was donated to the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society in late 1961 and thereafter displayed in Fairplex in Pomona, California. In 2013, Union Pacific re-acquired the locomotive and launched a restoration project at their Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming.[4] In 2019, No. 4014 ran under its own power for the first time in almost six decades, becoming the largest operational steam locomotive in the world.[5] Part of Union Pacific's heritage fleet, it now operates in excursion service, in addition to hauling revenue freight during ferry moves.[6]
The American Locomotive Company (often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco) was an American manufacturer that built locomotives, diesel generators, steel and tanks. The company was formed in 1901 by the merger of Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufactory of Schenectady, New York, with seven smaller locomotive manufacturers. The American Locomotive Automobile Company subsidiary designed and manufactured automobiles under the Alco brand from 1905 to 1913 and produced nuclear energy from 1954 to 1962.
Operators
Union Pacific
Class
4884-1[3]
Number in class
15
Numbers
4014
Nicknames
Big Boy
Delivered
December 1941
First run
December 1941
Last run
July 21, 1959 (revenue)
Retired
December 7, 1961
Restored
May 1, 2019
Current owner
Union Pacific Railroad
Disposition
Operational, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, at the steam shop
Things took an odd turn this morning. Initially I planned to go down and grab 4014 at Crescent then jump up to Kennard and call it quits. Obviously things didn't work out that way. A heavy downpour kept me in the house and I waited instead for 4014 to come to me which proved to be a good choice.
Earlier on MCHNP had stalled on the hill and lost its 2nd of 2 motors leaving it underpowered to get going again. With other freights in the area unable to assist Ed offered to give them a push to the top.
After hooking on 4014 works hard to aid getting MCHNP moving again. They would shove around 4 miles before cutting off.
This shot turned out to be my own personal run by. After capturing 4014 at Shawmut , I was lucky to have 4014 lined into the Shawmut siding to wait for a priority stack to run around it. I went to the old Estrella Wye location, a favorite of mine, which is at the Estrella Summit and where they used to turn helper locomotives back in the day. To my surprise, there was nobody else in sight. This afforded an experience I will never forget ! Standing alone on the now removed west switch of the old Wye, 4014 rolled by at track speed. Being able to feel everything this massive locomotive has to give was amazing. The sounds, smell, heat, steam and water vapor pouring off it was a once in a lifetime feeling !
Test train in summer between Les Laumes and Dijon, in Lantenay curve. They are now running between Paris and London