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World Premier of Trains Magazine Movie - Big Boy on the Road to Restoration

Tuesday evening, October 7, 2014, 7:30pm

At the R&LHS, Southern California Chapter meeting

Visitors welcome.


The world premier of Trains Magazine's movie about Big Boy #4014's restoration and the trip from the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds to Wyoming will be presented during our October rail meeting. Trains Magazine's reporters, photographers, and cinematographers where there for its entire 1,300 mile journey across four states.

Their Big Boy movie includes the journey, with views from exclusive locations, interviews, and historical footage of Big Boys in action. It promises to be the best video production of the most historic railroad event in recent decades.

Trains Magazine expects to release the DVD towards the end of October 2014. However, RailGiants Train Museum received the exclusive opportunity to host the movie's world premier and sell DVDs to the public BEFORE distributed to anyone else. The public is invited.

This will be your first opportunity to watch the movie and buy your home DVD copy.



Tuesday evening, October 7, 2014, 7:30pm

St. Edmund's Church – March Fellowship Hall
1175 San Gabriel Blvd
San Marino CA


For more details click: http://railgiants.org/special-events.htm#RailMeetings



Steve McFerson
Director, Website Editor,
RailGiants Train Museum - Pomona California
The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Southern California Chapter

website: http://www.railgiants.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/railgiants



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/14 16:32 by RailGiants.

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I have a question about this: Isn't a little pre-mature to be producing a movie entitled "Big Boy Restoration" about UP4014? Last I knew, the work on the boiler hadn't even commenced yet. Pulling her back to Cheyenne was the easy part of the job.

What's the game plan, what's the timetable, who's doing the work?

Keystone1 Wrote:
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> What's the game plan, what's the timetable, who's
> doing the work?

There isn't one, there isn't one, and nobody. Respectively.

I really hate to be the skunk at the picnic here, but to me watching the 4014 being drug across the country just doesn't float my boat. I know a lot of you will want to watch this, but honestly I'd rather rotate my shoe trees or get a root canal without Novocaine. Let me know when it is under steam and doing break in runs. There's nothing deader than a dead steam engine.
I don't even like watching video of steam fantrips because they are usually 200 runs past the camera and show the whole train going by.
I haven't had my coffee yet.

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> I really hate to be the skunk at the picnic here,
> but to me watching the 4014 being drug across the
> country just doesn't float my boat. I know a lot
> of you will want to watch this, but honestly I'd
> rather rotate my shoe trees or get a root canal
> without Novocaine. Let me know when it is under
> steam and doing break in runs. There's nothing
> deader than a dead steam engine.
> I don't even like watching video of steam fantrips
> because they are usually 200 runs past the camera
> and show the whole train going by.
> I haven't had my coffee yet.


Well Don, I'm on my second cup of hi-test,,,,,,and I still agree with you!

Some people are excited about the 4014 deal! So if you are and you want to get the video Rail Giants is deserving of support!

tolland Wrote:
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> I have a question about this: Isn't a little
> pre-mature to be producing a movie entitled "Big
> Boy Restoration" about UP4014? Last I knew, the
> work on the boiler hadn't even commenced yet.
> Pulling her back to Cheyenne was the easy part of
> the job.

The title is "Big Boy on the Road to Restoration"

"on the road" can be interpreted literally, and implies there is more to come.

Image file added to my original post (above).

When I saw this post I figured that it would go to this. I think the Rail Giants group can use some support, they still have a great collection. I can't go but hope they have a great turn out.

Is any of the money raised here going to the restoration project?

BNModeler Wrote:
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> Is any of the money raised here going to the
> restoration project?


Think it goes to support the rest of the collection
at Pomona.

I wonder how many shots and interviews Der Leader has in it.

CPRR Wrote:
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> I wonder how many shots and interviews Der Leader
> has in it.


I bet he has a whole piece in Special Features that shows off his greatness narrated by Trains Editor Jim Wrinn

I hope it sells well and the Museum makes plenty of money from it. I was stating my opinion (along with a lot of others that I know).
Just because I don't want to watch it doesn't mean that it won't sell. I couldn't even watch all of the 1522 videos for the reason I stated. Seeing the same 20 car train pass completely 40 times doesn't do it for me. Neither does watching other tapes with nonstop insane "babble" whistling. There are some good videos out there and there are some that are awful. Something for everybody's taste.
I'm at the age where I question whether I'll even still be around by the time the 4014 is on it's feet.
I've had my coffee now and haven't changed my mind.

CPRR Wrote:
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> I wonder how many shots and interviews Der Leader
> has in it.
Buy it and find out!

Frisco1522 Wrote:
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> I really hate to be the skunk at the picnic here,
> but to me watching the 4014 being drug across the
> country just doesn't float my boat. I know a lot
> of you will want to watch this, but honestly I'd
> rather rotate my shoe trees or get a root canal
> without Novocaine. Let me know when it is under
> steam and doing break in runs. There's nothing
> deader than a dead steam engine.
> I don't even like watching video of steam fantrips
> because they are usually 200 runs past the camera
> and show the whole train going by.
> I haven't had my coffee yet.

Well Don, your essay is a perfect example of that old standard "different strokes for different folks". I have problems with certain vidoes too, but the opposite problem....too many videos that do NOT show the whole consist. Being a big passenger train guy (vintage freight too) I am very interested, especially in vintage videos....the best kind, in my lonely opinion, it hurts a lot to see a runby....cut off after just a few cars. I do agree that excursion videos are necessarily repetitive....very much so in most cases. So, please let me recommend vintage videos as "the only way to fly". One disclaimer....folks like you, Don, will appreciate what is a problem for me in those vintage videos....very few whole train runbys....we all know the reason.....the huge expense of suitable film which was severely rationed by most who shot film in those days. The one exception being railroad company photographers. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

agentatascadero Wrote:
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One disclaimer....folks
> like you, Don, will appreciate what is a problem
> for me in those vintage videos....very few whole
> train runbys....we all know the reason.....the
> huge expense of suitable film which was severely
> rationed by most who shot film in those days. The
> one exception being railroad company
> photographers. AA

Actually it really wasn't so much the price of the film, back in the old day but, mainly due to the limited power of the "wind-up spring" inside those old movie cameras (especially the 8MM ones). Thus, the amateur action railroad movie photographer, back in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s had to be VERY careful when the camera was started for the scene, which meant the camera "quit"many times before the whole train passed.

Thanks, Jack, for the camera info...I had not thought of that. Could that mean that those company photographers used better equipment (a given I suppose) which included bigger/longer reels? AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

agentatascadero Wrote:
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> Thanks, Jack, for the camera info...I had not
> thought of that. Could that mean that those
> company photographers used better equipment (a
> given I suppose) which included bigger/longer
> reels? AA

No, not necessarily "bigger/longer reels", but probably electrically powered cameras, i.e. battery power for those big Bolex 16MM jobs.. Those were one hell of a lot more expensive, back in the day.

I've seen some old 16MM railfan videos where about halfway through the train it looked like they cut in the afterburner when the spring started to run down.
I like vintage films a helluva lot better than a lot of the fantrip style. Shame they don't have live sound.
If we could take today's equipment and go back to the '40s and record with it. Or better yet, have a USB port in our head where we could download all those great memories.
Of course, getting caught filming trains in WWII with a Japanese camera........................