Big Boy going home

[@anderberger]

Best video I have seen so far of the big boy thru Utah thanks and keep up the good work

[@rafaelrobayna9546]

anderberger it must be a LONG time to work on it

[@electricgaming9914]

Was actually made like 50 years ago but ok.

[@Ericland_Entertainment_Inc]

Big Boy is a symbol of 20th Century American engineering, determination, and power!

[@grobterm]

True. It beat all of them puny streamliners!

[@coreywilliams7445]

As much as I like todays modern trains, it's good to see steamers like the big boy 4014 running again.

[@elytrainmandave]

I'm Locomotive Engineer and get to run steam on a regular bases. Our locomotives aren't nearly as long as a Big Boy and I find it difficult to see around the boiler, so I have to rely on my fireman's eyes especially on curves to the left. With the Big Boys extra long boiler the Engineer would have had to rely even more on his Fireman for left side visuals. Would love to get my hand on the throttle when they get the 4014 running.

[@ToyManTelevision]

+David Turner Hope it makes the 2019 event here in Salt Lake!!!! WOW

[@SteamKing2160]

Truly Last of the Giants... long live the Big Boy!

[@ToyManTelevision]

What a machine!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I love that!! It's Richard Band. I bought rights to about 4 hours of his music, Writes music for features and TV spots. I can always spot is stuff.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Doesnt have a name. Heres a link. www.smartsound.com/royalty-free-music/Richard+Band+Vol+7+-+Scoring+Suites/Cinematic+Action+3/

[@ToyManTelevision]

With that thing its more like ROAR!!!! ROAR!!!!!!! RRROOOOAAAARRRR!!!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

There was one off a UP loco mounted on the North Salt Lake shops for years!!! 3 times day they blew it. Time for work, time for lunch, go home!! Loved that!!! A friend put it on his model of the shops in HO. So often listened to that and wished it was a real locomotive.

[@stevepalmer5115]

Thanks Toy Man for the great video! Great scenery, great shots, great music. And I like your laid back narrative. Keep us jealous East Coasters posted!

[@lindaterrell6104]

I grew up with big locomotives running through my back yard in Boston. I’d stand on the fence and wave. Could really touch it if I reached out. But we kids weren’t that dumb. Had a train running through my back yard in Safety Harbor, Florida. Although I moved, there is a track about a mile from me and I can hear the trains late at night.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Not sure if I ever saw one of those things running. If I did I was very young and it just didn’t make an impression I guess. I want to told my uncle that I wanted to see a steam locomotive running and he said oh you’ve seen that 1 million times! And I said no I haven’t and he said well I guess they’re not around much anymore but trust me you’ve seen them. So I assume I did I just can’t remember it darn it

[@lindaterrell6104]

Toy Man Television I can’t imagine seeing a steam locomotive and not remembering.

[@philloft]

just amazing commentary and footage thanks for sharing :-) I'm so glad #4014 is coming back to life i wonder if they will ever do a double header with #3985 and #4014 as a farewell to #3985 and a welcome back to #4014 now that will be epic and a nice way to retire or vacate #3985's along with her bigger brother the big boy. :-). I will be in my mid 30s when #4014 and I hope to share this moment with my grandfather because when i was younger he would always praise the BigBoy and i never knew the engine until i saw old videos of it :-)

[@carlsorensennb7c750]

My Dad road behind UP4005 on a troop train during ww2. The conductor took any of the soldiers that were interested up to see that locomotive that now lives in Denver. My dad bought a first generation Max Grey O scale Big Boy #UP4005. So I have watched it run since my childhood. He never thought that the Big Boys would never run again. He passed in 1999. He did chase 3985 and 844 around a lot in his life, so I related to your video in so many ways. Why did it take me almost 3 years to find these videos of yours???

[@ToyManTelevision]

Glad you found us.

[@Abandonsoyciety]

You dad got to ride behind the big boy with the most interesting history

[@jhrvta]

Very cool video. Thank you for sharing! UPRR former SPRR town of Ventura, CA! Also love the SP 4449.

[@Lgdnevada1]

Wonderful thank you for posting this…...

[@ToyManTelevision]

What a great locomotive!! SOON it will be back!!

[@ronhoffstein8142]

Got to see a few Big Boys pulling freights through in central Nebraska, when I was a young boy. Not many because they didn't need to be used on the flat lands there, but when they did, dad told me and my grandma lived on Front Street, so a visit to her served a dual purpose. If I get to see a steam 4000 again, pulling an honest load by itself, I guess it'd be time to say, "Thanks Lord", and just go on out of here.

[@joshuahill6994]

Soon the giant will thunder down the line again

[@ToyManTelevision]

2019? We HOPE!!!

[@sabokralj6745]

Sure it will he is a beast

[@RENunez-sd6ov]

Check out my channel for the BIG BOY from the museum at the Fairplex, then back on the mainline.

[@W0wzersNumber1337]

In a few years, she'll be dominating the U-P Rails once again.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Looking forward to it. Off to Cheyenne in a few weeks to follow up.

[@Tails92Halcmm]

biscuit big is technically a boy, as per UP official videos.

[@marryellen7713]

You are lucky to find out about things ahead of time. Our news only tell us about thing after the fact. We had a Christmas train move through here. We were told the next day. They new about it. They had reporter along the way.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Always hard to find out when.

[@TheBigCrabCake]

Beautifully shot video! Great narration. What is the name of the background music?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi It's some stuff I have in my library. Called "smart sound". I have like 25 cds and software for editing it. And they have hundreds of pieces that can be downloaded for about $20 each. Expensive, but that's with rights and I use this stuff at my studio for all kinds of things. This one is by Richard Band called Americana.

[@Bryndonshhpi]

844, the northern type that was also at the UP's steam shop' was finished! Big Boy's friend the 4-8-4 is up and running under it's power and I REALLY hope they do a double header with those. THAT WOULD BE AWSEOME.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We wanted to get out the the Denver run, but just could not fit it in. We want to get up to Cheyenne if they will let us in.

[@warrenmcfadden3918]

The Business Creeper read they are looking to do a triple header with 844 3985 and big boy

[@Patrick_3751]

If you thought 4,000 people was a lot, you should have seen the crowd chasing it when it left Colton, CA on the 28th. It was a mad house! Excellent job on covering this historic move!

[@firepain12]

Patrick3751

[@marryellen7713]

Gee I sure the hell did not know the big boy had radio speakers mounted. You can hear the music all the way to your camera. Yea it had to be the diesels. You can not trust a diesel. They make all kinds of funny noises.

[@ToyManTelevision]

car stereo

[@mthomas8327]

There are two Big Boy's up in Duluth Minnesota. One is in a museum Downtown and you can climb on and check it all out. I've climbed into the fire box of it! The other Big Boy is sitting up on the mountain from the bay of Duluth Minnesota, Lake Superior. This one you can climb on it and that's it can't go inside.

[@Bigbuddyandblue]

Comment June 2023: it’s hard to believe how long ago Big Boy began his journey. Seems like only yesterday I watched them tow it off static display in Pomona through the fairgrounds parking lot!

[@josephbruceismay6832]

In Trainstation: The Game On Rails, There is Big Boy, Big Boy Triple, Mountain Pass BIGBOY, BIGBADBOY, Horror (a halloween BIGBOY), BIGBOY Duochrome and many more BIGBOY's

[@DRCFART]

he's going home!

[@lillylouise5353]

the NRM national railway museum gb York who owns the mallard used compressed air to sound its whistle on its 25th anniversary

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thats cool. There was a Big Boy whistle on the loco shops in Salt Lake for years that they blew with steam to announce the shift changes. Could be heard at our house 8 miles away.

[@tonkingulfyachtclub8111]

Great video and nice background music. Matching #4014 diesel in front, #4884 (4-8-8-4) in the rear...perfect!

[@trainzguy2472]

I just noticed that the front locomotive is also numbered 4014! They should have gotten their huge DDA40X to come along, too!

[@raylouis]

notice the Diesel number boards? 4014 - 4884

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Ray Louis Classic. I love the UP.

[@sudriansignalman9387]

yeah, if this was Thomas and friends the big boy and diesel no. 4014 would be fighting all the way there

[@SternLX]

Heh, I just made that comment before scrolling down and seeing yours. That's an SD70M EMD Loco with the same Road No. Fitting.

[@wilfstor3078]

BB4014-YOU STOLE MY NUMBER D4014-AT LEAST I CAN MOVE

[@richfiles]

Oh man, that is SO awesome! UP, I see what you did there! :P UP really is a cool railroad! Love their restoration and heritage units. That's how you keep the public looking at you favorably. I'm starting an N scale model railroad after years being away from the hobby. I'm modeling primarily DME (Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern), with some ICE (Iowa, Chicago, & Eastern, DME's sister railroad), CNW (Chicago & Northwestern, the railroad where DME and ICE's lines came from), and Rock Island. Basically, I'm modeling fallen flags that I grew up seeing, but not in their times... I'm modeling them as if they were still around today, as if the bankruptcies, sales, and mega-mergers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s had never happened. There will be no BNSF, no CSX on my inter-railway connections. UP will just be UP. There will be some inter-rail Chessie System, some Burlington Northern, Canadian Pacific, and yeah... UP will be there. Though the big mergers killed a lot of classic road names, UP is more or less a classic, and I'll let their stock roll on my rails.

[@jamesmckelvey]

Now that the Scotsman is restored (and once 4014 is restored) they should bring them together as two of the worlds most famous steam locomotives.

[@ToyManTelevision]

+ITL Models Love to ride the Scotsman. Seen video only. But wow!!

[@jamesmckelvey]

+Toy Man Television agreed! I saw her in pieces in the Railway Museum, York last year (and I have a feeling I saw her in full when I was younger) but I plan to see her running some time this year ... scotsman would look like a switcher next to 4014! an incredibly fast switcher

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love the colors on the Scotsman. Black is fine, but I love elegant colors as well. Early American 4-4-0 are beautiful. Color is fine!!!

[@jamesmckelvey]

+Toy Man Television Yes, I believe the color the Scotsman is in at the moment is called British Rail Brunswik Green however her original color was London North Eastern Railways (LNER) Apple Green; she was for a brief time painted in British Rail Express Blue and she was only ever black during the Second World War, presumably so she was less visible to Nazi planes and bombing etc. And yes, I agree those early 4-4-0s were far more colorful!

[@ToyManTelevision]

ITL Models AND those British colors are rich and wonderful. Deep blue. Rich greens. Touch of gold. Wonderful!

[@65tosspowertrapl36]

4 8 8 4 wow! How many other locomotives were of this configuration?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just these 25.

[@princenoah21]

And of the 25, only 8 of them (counting this one) were saved from scrap.

[@gabestrainworld5816]

I’m probably going to see the union pacific big boy once I get to the union pacific rail yard

[@britainluver431]

The Big Boy, king of the railroad has come back to claim his kingdom

[@georgeallen938]

britainluver431

[@Maizerus]

The oilers on the 4014 were not 'jury rigged', the chain is part of the original design. Most of the time you do see the chain mostly covered with a protective steel sleeve, though.

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

When she is breathing steam and smoke again the whole world will smile. A Giant Returns

[@StellaCharlie]

wow. AWESOME!!!!!

[@thetrueamerican707]

2018! If U.P. is right, we have only one more year of waiting!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Actually 16 months 4 weeks and a few days. But who's counting.

[@crrguy1625]

The lead engine is number 4014 so there are 2 4014s on that train. Funny

[@slepey_]

who else thought the cement truck at the beginning had a face? XD

[@ToyManTelevision]

When I watch that video it scares me. I had no idea that thing was back there!

[@JonRossThomas]

Very nicely done Video, thank you for your work and information man. Well done!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks right back!! What a great loco. 2019!!!!! WOW.

[@seaboardairlineproductions7185]

This is what built america, this is beautiful, thank you for sharing this.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Coming right along too.... about 14 months away!1

[@KipperSM]

Big boy woot woot!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Looking forward to it's return. Stay tuned..

[@cliffordgta2428]

Coffee Critters it’s toot toot

[@dat42960]

We need Americana like this For everyone that cares to see and maybe touch not hidden away and almost forgotten. It's amazing to know how special Big Boy was to so many people across the states it traveled as it was to me at my local fairgrounds every year.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes, this monster was at the LA Fair Grounds for decades. Nice to see it getting fixed.

[@anrails3220]

may the 4th, 2019, it is back iin action

[@wolfox712]

is it just me, or is it oddly satisfying watching each set of drive wheels turning in sync with each other?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Could watch for hours. Ah.. HAVE watched for hours.

[@charlesgrimes6350]

Wolfox perfect question

[@SPNGLovato18]

Wolfox yes it is

[@draz8302]

rather good quality for 2014

[@ПетарМилковски]

Lets go big boy!!!!You will rumble again in 2019 or 2020!!!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

The countdown starts on May 10. WOW!!!

[@ThunderTrain2930]

It’s been 4 years and I seen nothing. And also, that cement truck is seriously tailgating you

[@ToyManTelevision]

We were up at Shawnee and I’m just a year ago. There’s a show about that on depot days and showing the current state of the restoration on the big boy. We’re heading back up there here in a few weeks as they are now putting it back together! If all goes well it will be running in a year!

[@theq4602]

We need to crowdfund 9000's restroration Also at 4:05 That ain't no bicyle chain that MUCH bigger than any bicycle I've seen

[@upsd402]

Great production....

[@jetdust]

Super video with about great historical perspective!!! Thank you!!

[@alcomotive]

Great video! I was wondering do you have a side shot of the boxcar before the other boxcar UPP 9313 Cheyenne WY Rotary Snow Plow car??????

[@claudine404]

i love the big boy, especially The Big one From the galaxy railways which is a advanced flying big boy model from that show.

[@DuaneHinkle]

Thank you for the great videos about Big Boy. I have been admiring it at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds for years and it is so much fun seeing it on the move.

[@Redwagon2012]

If you look closely at that diesel leading the train it has 4014s Number

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!! And the other..?? 4-8-8-4.

[@Redwagon2012]

Yup

[@Big-vk3zi]

Hope the big boy to have a safe journey home ☺

[@ToyManTelevision]

We hope to be there for testing.

[@paralleler]

Really nicely done, many thanks!

[@mattdotsonrailfanproductio266]

Now she’s up and running again

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wonder if the world #8.

[@pepsidoggo1598]

17 people think that 4014 deserves to be cut up and melted down

[@ToyManTelevision]

Some people think NASA faked the moon landings. Some people are........ well........

[@pepsidoggo1598]

This is what those anti-steam locomotive people get *insert middle finger*

[@kyleredman4069]

that bicyle chain is not jury rigged.......it was put on there by the U.P in the late forties beacuse the lenghth of the rod running the lubericator was prone to breaking......it is the ONLY chain driven device on an American steam locomotive.

[@sdiv_tim]

I really think keeping 4014 for 3-5 years is bleeping stupid. I really think that UP should of traded 4004 for 4014 so UP Could keep 4014. My guess is in 2020 that 5511 is going to be restored and sold to some Railroad museum with all of trains.

[@SternLX]

Pause the video at about 1:52 ... notice something about that SD70M heading that train? Yup, same Road Number as that deadhead Big Boy. :-)

[@Squid1562]

Who else is already planning to be at 4014’s first excursion?

[@OddDuckling-vs2jo]

1 week ago i got to see 4017 in wisconsin

[@ToyManTelevision]

wanna see that!

[@flyaround5953]

Personally I wish they pulled the 4014 back to the shops with either the 844 or the 3985 but they are still restoring a big boy so I can’t complain also great video and narration.

[@bnsfavardsubdivisionproduction]

There is 2 4014 engines thats awsome

[@ToyManTelevision]

And 4884. Ed pulls some strings to make that happen.

[@gregoryolson6633]

Thank you for the Video!! Was very nice to see a high quality video of the Big Boy. Sure wish it would have been in the lead for the final leg from Laramie to Cheyenne, but it will be in the lead under its own power soon enough!! Thank UP for restoring this important History.

[@TransportCambs]

3:24. Listen to that GM!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I try to imagine in my own mind the sound of the steam engine, but that’s just me! The GM does sound great

[@VRDenshaOtaku]

this brought me to tears

[@ToyManTelevision]

Happy tears!! What a day!!

[@mtl6113]

+Toy Man Television what was that thing duing the introduction

[@ToyManTelevision]

Cement mixer!! Big one.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Defect!! We don't bite. Hard anyway. But bring one of those little 2 foot tea pots with you!! Love those.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hope they pull it off by then. But someday...

[@charlesgrimes6350]

I worked at Curry Miller Veneers in the later part of the 80,s when the ground shuuuk under my feet I thought it a earthquake when this big steam engine riled by being pulled and I don't quite know the class of the engine but it was very heavy and everything shake around the mill mean machine yea

[@ПетарМилковски]

Just to ask you again.IF the big boy is operational again will he pull only freight, or passenger trains or both?

[@Maximilian7992]

the 4018 is now in frisco texas (use to be in dallas at the fair grounds) they moved it because it was going to a new train museum

[@BSRC318]

Just FYI that chain driven greaser isnt jerry rigged, thats how they worked originally

[@ajoyfulnoisepianostudio]

The front Loco is also 4014 but I don't know the class of the front Loco.

[@j-bird1778]

I like how he is talking normally at the beginning as he is being tailgated by a huge concrete mixer. Lol

[@elmerlarimer9026]

2 engine too move big boy

[@ToyManTelevision]

Did you check out the numbers on those 2 locomotives??

[@Mike-tg7dj]

I would imagine that if they didn't lube at every hundred miles it would either seize up or come apart or both. Nice videos glad I'm subscribed.

[@ToyManTelevision]

AND they have automatic oilers running all the time. But still need to "oil around" every 100 miles or so.

[@gh_3_2]

I wish i wasn't six when this rolled through slc cause then I would've been right there in the action

[@professionallyclueless2395]

4014 pulling 4014 home, ironic, isn't it?

[@santafemiket]

Great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. More coming.

[@williamthethespian]

oops that's 4014....( fat finger...)

[@trainmanjosair]

Would've been nice to see the UP DDA40X 6936 paired up with the UP BIG BOY! Two of the World's Largest Locomotives ever built paired together!

[@ToyManTelevision]

This was great though. They don’t run the DD 40 much.

[@r.c.r.rproductions8462]

bueatyfull

[@ToyManTelevision]

Soon!!! Not sure if they will make it for May 10 but so far so good. Really coming together now.

[@tony1961chl]

El más bello monumento viviente del genio del hombre que tan sólo usando las dos más viejas energias del mundo, lograron poner en marcha tan bella y poderosa máquina, también las lagrimas caen solas de tanta emoción, de ver esta hermosa mole moverse con tanta gracia, para mi, ésta es la más hermosa máquina hecha por el hombre.

[@ToyManTelevision]

abbiamo bisogno di andare a Chyenne Wyoming di seguire il lavoro . Essi fissano il progetto da parte per costruire una nuova scatola di fuoco nel 844. Ora hanno gli strumenti e sanno come farlo, e stanno iniziando sul focolare Big Boy .

[@grobterm]

Almost 5 years... she’s gonna do it!

[@sheep8428]

It stays an amazing vehicle😍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Will SOOn be back on the tracks!!! May next year??

[@sheep8428]

I hope so!

[@allegedlymario]

Great Job filming this.

[@terryhopkins2750]

Great Video and very nice commentary.

[@TheRealEasyA]

Idk if anyone noticed this, but did anyone check out the road numbers of the diesels towing the Big Boy? 4014 and 4884 (4-8-8-4).

[@ToyManTelevision]

Cool right? Bet that took some splain'n with the UP management to pull off!!

[@williamthethespian]

Fantastic as always. You choice of orchestral instrumental music adds so much. Thank you. (p.s. was it design, or caprice that the rear diesel was #4884; the same as the truck configuration?)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Nope, planned out!! The other loco was 4014! Love the UP!!!!

[@stephen761]

I discovered your videos when I was doing a search for video of my personal favored locomotive the Southern Crescent 1404. not much video on her found yet. I have personal history with this train as a youngster I and my family often road this train from Atlanta to Birmingham almost every weekend. While I was never privileged to ride being pulled by the 1401 itself but I do remember the porters, and the staff always talking about her. My father was a 3rd generation engineer for Southern Railway so my love for trains was in stilled in me at a very young age. Any way thank you for you videos always loved trains.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Very cool!!!! Love that train. Have an HO of it. Although we do have like 100 HO locomotives.... BUT love that Crescent!!!

[@robynfoller3887]

If you pause at 4:47 you can see that the Union Pacific in front of Big Boy says "4014"!!! Never know that til' now.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And the rear is 4-8-8-4!!!

[@cbojanower]

Video turned out great, thanks for the conversation Friday. Think I saw you in Ogden Sunday. Did you make it there?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes, must have been me! Fun day.

[@NoOneEpic]

One of the best train ever constructed!

[@cliffordgta2428]

You noticed the train behind him?

[@DIESELMAN8V92]

It would be nice to see complete resto documentry of this monster, I would also Like to see its arch rival the Alleganey (in the Henry Ford museum restored and running. the two behemoths of an amazing era :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

That would be great. Im sure it will be out there too. We want to get up there to see the progress too.

[@williamthethespian]

another oops. Now I realize that Big boy is 4014 hence the lead diesel is also. Finally got it

[@ToyManTelevision]

So cool they did that!

[@joshridderhoff2050]

Loved that the second diesel unit was 4884, too... cute!

[@TimsBitsnPieces]

It's interesting to notice that the diesel loco leading the group also has the 4014 number as the big boy number is the same.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I noticed that the other diesel has the locomotives wheel arrangement as a number. Ed worked for months to pull that one

[@aussi3212]

4:06 um I don't think it has been jerry rigged with a bicycle chain, I'm sure that is the regular chain that drives the oil pump.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup, my mistake. They did rig some stuff to make this work, but this is normal Big Boy stuff. You can just see it better.

[@williamthethespian]

Bring me up to speed here; is there a significance to the front diesel being 4914? Thanks.

[@ToyManTelevision]

YES!! It's actually 4014, same number as the Big Boy. When the Big Boy is ready they will need to change that Or some workaround. Thats why 844 was 8444 for years. Diesel 844 is now in a museum in Bolder Nevada. (we have a show on that museum) so 844 got it's number back. The other diesel is 4884. Same as the wheel arrangement and class of 4014. Gotta love the UP.

[@piergiorgiocolombo]

Fasten your seat belt, man!