Thread: Went to see Union Pacific 4014 Big Boy today

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I followed the restoration for the last couple of years (lot of videos on You Tube). Love the frontal picture of it !!!!!!

That bell is a dead ringer for the train bell I have that came from the family farm. It's probably larger but it hard to get a sense of scale has the locomotive it so big. Mine is off an 1880 4-4-0. (I don't mean to make bad puns...... but sometimes it just happens ).


Bell 1 by M Patterson, on Flickr



Trains used to be a huge deal. I remember mom telling the story of how she and her family went down to the train station in Dixon Illinois in the 1930s to watch the first streamliner go thru town (it just passed thru it wasn't scheduled to stop). Apparently almost the whole town took off to turn out and see it go by.



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