Model Railroading > A little more "Big Boy Mania"

Rich Casford at the throttle of the Riverside Live Steamers 1/8" scale Big Boy.

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Now that would be a ride!

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WOW WE 
No wonder they call it a BIG BOY.
nice photo please show more.?

snoopy51 Wrote:
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> WOW WE 
> No wonder they call it a BIG BOY.
> nice photo please show more.?

Appearently....as the story goes....some shop worker took a look at the first loco when it arrived and wrote in chalk on the smokebox front "big boy". The name stuck. 

4026? Interesting, a fantasy scheme perhaps of additional Big Boys beyond the 1st 25?

Amtrak784 Wrote:
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> 4026? Interesting, a fantasy scheme perhaps of
> additional Big Boys beyond the 1st 25?

It's not a "perfect" model, nothing ever is, but the number keeps the rivet counters at bay.

I seem to remember from a  picture in TRAINS magazine that the term Big Boy was scribbled on the smoke box
of the first or an early unit while under constuction at Alco.    

Tom's masterpiece,now residing in New Zealand.Well done UP steam crew.
Regards,dK

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These live steam bigboys, whats the actual drawbar effort on one of these monsters?  And please if someone repsonds, have the facts...not speculation.

ATSF3751 Wrote:
> Appearently....as the story goes....some shop
> worker took a look at the first loco when it
> arrived and wrote in chalk on the smokebox front
> "big boy". The name stuck. 

The 4-8-8-4 locomotives were originally to be called the Wahsatch class. However at the American Locomotive Company's Schnectady works one of their employees chalked "Big Boy" on the smokebox door and that moniker stuck to this class of locomotive ever since.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Here's a few more.

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Amazing work.  Any idea what it weighs? 

Dave

GBW309 Wrote:
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> Amazing work.  Any idea what it weighs? 
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> Dave

Hi Dave,
I don't know however our Club Northern weighs in at just under 1,600 lbs I'm told.
So I could easily see the overall weight of the engine knocking on the door of 1,800 lbs.

Brook

Very nice..!!

It's pretty freakin awesome although I still find it kinda wierd to see a "giant" riding on it!  :-p

The Big Boy is cool but that 487 looks amazing!

DKay Wrote:
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> Tom's masterpiece,now residing in New Zealand.Well
> done UP steam crew.
> Regards,dK

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