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Steam & Excursion > I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on videoDate: 04/19/24 05:01 I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat Please it's an arduous adventure just getting up there but well worth the risk, just don't drive up there in a regular car, I promise the rock roads will beat a regular car to death! 4x4 is best!
I did it in 1992 with a 4x4 pickup and a lot of pre-planning shoots before the big day, because my work back then often took me by this location and many other areas of Northern Nevada PM me if you like for details. This video is west of Wendover, Utah/Nevada and truly in the middle of Nowhere, Nevada, and nothin' but hard Rock all around. You can hear the retired hogger from Washington who was next to me shout "DAMN THATS BEAUTIFUL!" He was absolutely thrilled! Yes another re-post but I felt that it fit in with 4014 upcoming trip. Jim Baker Riverside, CA Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/24 18:40 by RailRat. You must be a registered subscriber to watch videos. Join Today! Date: 04/19/24 07:25 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: P Outstanding video. Yes, it would be great to get the 4014 in Hi Def
Posted from Android Date: 04/19/24 07:31 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: dpudave Thanks, railrat. One of yuur best offerings ever. Much enjoyed d
Date: 04/19/24 08:03 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: Frisco1522 One of the best videos ever for just listening to the exhaust. What a location!
Date: 04/19/24 08:21 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: LTCerny Thank the WP's original engineering decision to keep grades to a 1% maximum for this huge loop.
Date: 04/19/24 08:29 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: wcamp1472 Agreed--- about the BEST of photo and recordings made
of the GOLDEN ERA of Steamers: 1964 to 2014... W. Date: 04/19/24 09:51 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: vwood22 great video looks like a good place for rattlesnakes
Date: 04/19/24 10:45 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: gcm What a great steam video !
Gary Date: 04/19/24 11:18 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: jcaestecker Beauty, eh? Looks like she wasn't struggling at all. Out there where God lost his slippers, as my father would say. Thanks for posting!
-John Date: 04/19/24 11:25 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: callum_out Jim I was about 100 yards to your right and boy did the weather suck!
Out Date: 04/19/24 11:48 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: irhoghead Beautiful video!
Date: 04/19/24 14:06 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: MJV1988 This video never gets old!! 3985 was moving along well. Thanks for posting again.
Posted from Android Date: 04/19/24 18:08 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat vwood22 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > great video looks like a good place for > rattlesnakes Yes I always wore high shin thick rubber boots when trudging around out there. Jim Baker Riverside, CA Date: 04/19/24 18:26 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat callum_out Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Jim I was about 100 yards to your right and boy > did the weather suck! > > Out Well I'll be danged!, what a small world we live in. There were 2 guys next to me, from Chehalis WA. (Roger Dunn I think?) And the other was a retired hogger who was absolutely thrilled to death, you can hear him shout "God that's beautiful!" If you listen closely as 3985 is rounding the curve and sounding her whistle. Back then there was a maintenance road crossing to access the center of the loop, that was very easy to bottom out a normal car on! I think it was removed a few years after this video And yes always seemed to be windy, hot and sometimes thunder storms could rapidly form and sneak up on top of you from the west, and with hardly any shelter around but my vehicle, I would have to get the heck out of there, in fact that's why I skipped filming the 6936 rounding the loop after 3985 this day, it got dark, cloudy and thunder/lightning very quickly. Jim Baker Riverside, CA Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/24 18:33 by RailRat. Date: 04/20/24 01:34 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: coach Doing the same thing the old WP Challenger engines did: pull trains at good speed over the 1% line. Just how it was, music to our ears, every day back then. Really is the perfect engine for that sort of train and grade. 3985 just hammers along and never skips a beat.
Date: 04/20/24 16:35 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat Thank you all for your nice comments!
And I still miss Bob Kreger's comments about anyone's post here when it came to UP Steam Crew! Jim Baker Riverside, CA Date: 04/20/24 16:40 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat coach Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Doing the same thing the old WP Challenger engines > did: pull trains at good speed over the 1% line. > Just how it was, music to our ears, every day > back then. Really is the perfect engine for that > sort of train and grade. 3985 just hammers along > and never skips a beat. Yes coach my thoughts exactly! Being a WP fan and all. I have a 8x10 b&w of a WP Challenger ill try to remember to post soon. Jim Baker Riverside, CA Date: 04/20/24 19:07 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: RailRat For coach and everyone, Heres WP Challenger #404. Photo print given to me by Bob Larsen in Winnemucca 1992. No Date or Location Info on back of photo.
Jim Baker Riverside, CA Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/24 19:07 by RailRat.  Date: 04/22/24 12:36 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: coach Great photo, Jim--thank you!
Date: 04/22/24 14:04 Re: I hope someone catches 4014 rounding Arnold Loop on video Author: ProAmtrak Won't be as spectacular compared to when 3985 went that way, look at the Archer Hill video to compare!
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