a voice from the rustbelt: Big Boy 4014 Lorain O.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Big Boy 4014 Lorain O.

Monday, 11.20 am, 8 June 2026

One of eight surviving of twenty-five largest locomotives made in Schenectady New York between 1941 and 1944 for the Union Pacific Railroad service to 1962. This one was assembled November 1941. All of these were for the Wasatch Range. In 2019 this one was made new again. It cruises at 80 mph.

Going to Philadelphia for Independence Day. Coming through Ohio again on return.

It was a pretty stretch of a train.

Marco Polo, the last car

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