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Steam & Excursion > You can have your own Big BoyDate: 03/21/16 18:25 You can have your own Big Boy Author: Spoony81 For a small sum of $245,000 you can own this 1.6" scale 7-1/2" gauge Big Boy. This was commissioned by Tom Miller and It's gorgeous. Anyplace in Cheyenne we could run this thing to make the DL jealous?
http://www.discoverlivesteam.com/discoverforsale/forsale/6_Miller/index.htm#Bigboy Posted from iPhone Date: 03/21/16 18:29 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: HotWater Tom has had his whole "estate" up for sale for quite a few years now. Having visited there, the whole place is surely worth the asking price, including all the live steam pieces and his spectacular G Gauge D&RGW indoor layout (in its own special building).
Date: 03/21/16 18:32 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: Spoony81 Yeah me and my wife saw the listing online last year. I can't imagine the cost to keep the place in tip top shape. I guess if you're spending the money to buy the place you probably have the money to keep it up. I'm sure my 4-1/2 yr old son would love it though
Posted from iPhone Date: 03/21/16 18:32 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: callum_out Joel Bragdon had nearly 1000 hours just in the scenery on the indoor layout, the place is incredible,
just needs right buyer. Out Date: 03/21/16 18:50 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: DKay Had the priviledge of visiting Tom's little piece of paradise back in 08 ,while attending the narrow gauge convention in Portland.Money ,and time is all you need.
Regards,DK    Date: 03/21/16 18:53 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: DKay A couple more
   Date: 03/21/16 19:23 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: callum_out The K36 is 2 1/2" scale.
Out Date: 03/21/16 20:01 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: Bob3985 HotWater Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Tom has had his whole "estate" up for sale for > quite a few years now. Having visited there, the > whole place is surely worth the asking price, > including all the live steam pieces and his > spectacular G Gauge D&RGW indoor layout (in its > own special building). Jack, If I remember right didn't Lynn, Steve, Harold and I go with you there. I remember getting photos from there. Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/21/16 20:13 by Bob3985. Date: 03/21/16 20:04 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: DKay Toys ,and the workshop.
   Date: 03/21/16 20:18 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: Frisco1522 If some other selfish weenies hadn't won the Powerball, I'd be living there as we speak. That whole package is beyond belief.
Date: 03/21/16 20:22 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: DKay Love your thinking Frisco,the thought had crossed my mind also.
Someone mentioned here a couple of years ago,that he had the big boy built in the UK.When it was completed ,he had it air freighted home.I like his style. regards,dK Frisco1522 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If some other selfish weenies hadn't won the > Powerball, I'd be living there as we speak. > That whole package is beyond belief. Date: 03/21/16 20:32 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: CarolVoss callum_out Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Joel Bragdon had nearly 1000 hours just in the > scenery on the indoor layout, the place is > incredible, > just needs right buyer. > > Out by pure happenstance we became friends with Joels parents, Joe and Doris Bragdon when we were docents at the Steinbeck Center in Salinas. Joe lent us videos that son Joel took of the project as he was developing it. An amazing undertaking. C Carol Voss Bakersfield, CA Date: 03/21/16 21:31 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: DKay Carol.That building you see in the second to last photo housed the layout that Joel helped create.I think it is 90x 60.Fabulous stuff.A view from the mezanine level.
  Date: 03/21/16 21:42 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: CarolVoss DKay Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Carol.That building you see in the second to last > photo housed the layout that Joel helped create.I > think it is 90x 60.Fabulous stuff.A view from the > mezanine level. joels video was taken by a camera mounted on the engine running thru the layout. Joels parents are well into their 90's and it has been 3 or 4 years since we have had contact--joels father taught art and photography at Hartnell CC here In salinas fir years and there was an exhibit at the Steinbeck of his work a couple of years ago --we saw Joel then but his parents had moved to MA with his brother and werent able to attend. I can only assume they are still alive since either one's death would be noted in the local press etc. The Bragdons are a great family of artists, C Carol Voss Bakersfield, CA Date: 03/21/16 21:51 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: 4451Puff Mind blown. How does one individual accumulate the money and time and energy to achieve such an undertaking? Like they say, at any given point of ones life, you can only have two of those three...
Desmond Praetzel, "4451 Puff" Date: 03/22/16 04:14 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: GMUP As I recall when Tom moved to Oregon initially he was in Scio where he laid some track. With the assistance of Jack Pfeifer I visited Tom circa 1983 when the Big Boy was pretty new and got to ride behind it on perhaps, I am guessing, 1/4 mile of track. Sure sounded sweet! As I recall its cost was stated to be about $1 million, much of which was for production costs for the multitude of wooden patterns for the castings. There had been a plan to produce more Big Boys for interested parties but the foundry had a destructive fire around the time 4005 was being built and the patterns were lost, so there was just the one. Being some thirty-plus years ago some recollections are fuzzy but as I recall, the Millers moved a couple of years later. During the Union Pacific Historical Society Convention in Portland, Tom brought 4005 to a live steamer site in a flower nursery farm near Portland to the delight of the convention attendees. Gordon McCulloh
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/16 05:29 by GMUP. Date: 03/22/16 07:19 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: towazy I've seen this listed as a real estate offering for years now. Just wondering if this individual,who obviously is,or was a man of means,could set this up as a museum or tourist attraction,thereby saving it. Maybe even with an endowment of some sort. Or maybe a group alonf the lines of Train Mountain.Would be a shame to see it dismantled after all the time and money invested to this point.I'd venture to say there is a VERY finite number of people out there with all the qualifications to purchase this outright,ie desire and financial.
Tom Date: 03/22/16 07:26 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: skidroe This locomotive model should be in the Smithsonian or the Union Pacific museum in Omaha for the public to marvel at!
Date: 03/22/16 09:53 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: NPCRR9 Date: 03/22/16 10:35 Re: You can have your own Big Boy Author: P towazy Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen this listed as a real estate offering > for years now. Just wondering if this > individual,who obviously is,or was a man of > means,could set this up as a museum or tourist > attraction,thereby saving it. Maybe even with an > endowment of some sort. Or maybe a group alonf the > lines of Train Mountain.Would be a shame to see it > dismantled after all the time and money invested > to this point.I'd venture to say there is a VERY > finite number of people out there with all the > qualifications to purchase this outright,ie desire > and financial. > > Tom > > Perhaps that could happen if it remains on the market for a lengthy period of time unsold. I would hope that while it sits unsold that the owner is at least exploring this possibility. |