UP Big Boy 4014 at Rochelle IL Train Park July-30-2019.

[@donr8773]

Greatest steam locomotive of all time. Thanks.

[@b3j8]

Gotta say I LOVE the audible enthusiasm people are showing for 4014! Wonder how many future railroaders were started on their path this day!

[@fj9460-lr]

Neat, I just experienced the awesomeness of 4014 in Denver Colorado on Monday and Tuesday September 6-7 2021. A cousin and I drove 300 plus miles from Glorieta New Mexico on Monday morning to see and hear this classic for the very first time, and then watched it leave Denver for Cheyenne Wyoming on Tuesday morning. Thanks to Union Pacific and their restoration/operation crew s for saving this majestic lady for us descendants of those who rode the rails behind this treasure!! Like my father who traveled to Navy boot camp at the beginning of World War II, in a blacked out train pulled by a Big Boy.

[@ColAngus]

BigBoy has reached RockStar status.

[@mikemather5]

That's 1.2 million pounds of iron and steel folks!

[@jaydeezkeys3722]

Thanks for sharing! Good footage. I saw #4014 in West Chicago yesterday and wasn’t able to see the departure today. Again, thanks for sharing!!!

[@9005067]

Thanks for sharing a magnificent piece of machinery

[@alansklenar2848]

It seems like the people forgot that they are standing on live railroad

[@dogmannz]

I think you'll find UP have a complete traffic ban on all tracks during this sort of event. It's just too dangerous otherwise.

[@MissHolly60]

So cool ! My mom and dad was there that day. From TN.

[@sdhaynie1962]

I was there! Great day. My only disappointment was that it didn't leave under it's own power. I was hoping for some of that classic steam action. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@davidjacobs8558]

guess they didn't want to be sued by people for being burned by exhaust steam from those cylinders.

[@mrk1075]

That would explain why I didn't hear that chug chug chug sound than. But I do have an older video of a steam engine the day I was at Union IL coming in on it's own power. I will look for that video and upload it soon.

[@mdgfb05]

It obviously is working, it is just that the engineer, Ed Dickens, doesn't need to have the regulator wide open to start the train.

[@donkerouac3746]

@Chardee MacDennis Actually, while the 3025 was used for hostling duties at times, most of the time it was used as a drag or load on the Big Boy with it's dynamic brakes engaged. It was never the primary traction. That's if you believe Ed Dickens and he should know!

[@donkerouac3746]

@Chardee MacDennis I guess you can believe what you like.

[@robertwillett9204]

Gorgeous! No other word for it. Except magnificent.

[@Steve-xf4uv]

Beautiful restoration; very impressive locomotive. Hope it shows up somewhere north, maybe Vermont or New York ? Just dreaming !

[@geniusatwork12]

This was so cool... I'm glad I got to see it. Working the snack stand was also fun too :)

[@IzMatt]

Was there on the other side of the tracks. Amazing video!

[@sparks1504]

Rochelle had the biggest turnout for 4014 without a doubt......

[@dannyseo6759]

Your local enforcement really dropped the ball.

[@Jleed989]

Danny Seo nobody hurt, everyone went home happy. I’d say a rousing success but some are never happy

[@sentrysiren01]

lol yeah it was not this big for sp 4999 when it came through lol

[@jwboilermaker]

Great footage from a different perspective than I had!

[@davekauffman8727]

Legend of steam-power!

[@tommyt329]

I'm still buzzing from my Railgiants tour in oct 2019 on 4014. Certainly an unforgettable trip indeed.

[@DaaYay]

Rockstar Status!!

[@djtodd3]

I think all of the working steam engines have this status. Besides seeing 4014 with 844 in Cheyenne I've had the pleasure of catching 844 in Topeka, 3985 in Elmhurst, and Milwaukee Road 261 at Rochelle and each time there's been a huge crowd.

[@04AirForceRam]

Saw it twice multiple times that day. Was at Rochelle, then saw it again when wr chased it on a side road for a few miles, and then once again when it was going over the bridge into Iowa. That was a fun day.

[@djtodd3]

I really would have liked to been there that day, just to here all the radio chatter. I was lucky enough to see her and 844 together returning to Cheyenne after her maiden trip.

[@ScrepTure]

Very good! I myself put a video of 4014 arriving at a station in Chicago

[@michaelcallahan5358]

A moment to remember, the time’s of maximum stream at it’s peek! An almost unequaled accomplishment!

[@MasonWright1234]

I went to see Union Pacific big boy 4014 on Aug 19 2021.

[@kevinchristel485]

I was there and appear very briefly in this video. Loved Big Boy and the eastbound freight that preceded it. We made numerous new friends there. However, the crowd was unruly, obnoxious and out of control. The park and the Rochelle PD did a terrible job by not planning and not controlling the crowd. That will be my last visit to Rochelle! 🤬

[@mrk1075]

Kevin Christel Wow, I thought for the most part the crowd was well behaved. I didn’t see no pushing and shoving. But there was a lack of bathrooms. ☹️

[@randallfawc7501]

AS great ambassadors as Ed and his crew are, it has to be frustrating to see people on the tracks and not heeding his repeated requests to stay back. Many dim bulbs standing IN the tracks. GEEZ

[@animenut69]

Even worse was how many were playing around and on the diamonds themselves

[@Tricky929]

Nice capture. I love our home made video. Suggesting you slow down the panning or use the edit feature to edit it out. Otherwise hat's off to you. You gave me a chance to watch the Big Boy from your perspective. Love it.

[@mrk1075]

I will try and remember to do that next time, and your welcome!

[@PatrioticCoservativeAmerican]

Now, hardly anyone shows up

[@mrk1075]

Right. 🙂

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

awesome video mrk107 :)

[@mrk1075]

I think I had more fun watching the people record the train. 😀

[@b3j8]

Roger that!😄

[@adavazquez3378]

What's in thr back part? You KNOW the second part of the train? Why the Big Boy writing is not on this train.

[@TrucksNTrains-m6x]

26:28 u can see me in the bottom with the orange shirt and me wearing a white shirt with my tripod

[@Bluewave10146]

wow lot people .. just old train steam..

[@adavazquez3378]

Can i get a poster of the Big Boy, i love to have 1, maybe in near future? Love to find it and buy it.

[@amtrakhiawathafan3609]

People were impatient to see union Pacific big boy locomotive

[@adavazquez3378]

That's FUNNY,YOU GOT TO WAIT PEOPLE😛😛😛

[@TWIGYBNSF]

Haha I saw my tripod go up a few times xD

[@TELong1603]

Why does the 4014 need a diesel behind it?

[@donkerouac3746]

@Chardee MacDennis The diesel was used for hostling duties where needed. At other times it was used as a load by running with it's dynamic brakes engaged. It did not supply tractive power. The Big Boy was meant to drag much heavier loads through the steep Watsach Mountains.

[@donkerouac3746]

@Chardee MacDennis Interesting. Clearly, the 4000 series was not meant for switching or hostling duties. What limits it from providing any useful traction presently and what remains to be done to make it fully functional?

[@donkerouac3746]

@Chardee MacDennis Odd. I based my assumptions on taping it running between West Chicago and Rochelle and in conversations with Ed Dickens at West Chicago. When it passed me out in the country at about 45 mph, the Big Boy was chugging away and the diesel was very quiet and produced no visible exhaust. ED said the diesel provided dynamic braking to provide a load as needed for the BB tests. I believe it was one of the crew who said they used the diesel for hostling/switching as the BB & tenders was poorly suited for such duties. I'm an electrical engineer, not a mechanical but it seems to me if you put 300 psi into the cylinders, the laws of physics say that you will get x amount of force on the piston and conversely the driving rods. Oh well, it should be a continuing education as time goes by.

[@poohlo1211]

25:10 TORNADO SIREN HAS SOUND OFF!

[@poohlo1211]

or maybe not

[@amtrakhiawathafan3609]

They need to wait patiently for the union Pacific big boy locomotive

[@fermincuervo8613]

GREAT...GREAT.......GREATTTTTTTTTTTTT.......

[@paulnash1810]

Big Boy sure is an impressive beast, can't believe so many people we're allowed so near to it, here in the UK health & safety has gone crazy and getting near to a steam locomotive is near impossible. Sorry America but I still prefer our British locomotives.

[@Jleed989]

Lucky people

[@GR10Productions]

The people recording their phones vertically makes me cringe

[@mrk1075]

Their videos will be N Scale (narrow gauge). ha ha!

[@rupert5390]

why they're just nice folks doing what they think is right - fringe away

[@SamGadefrisco1630]

So many people have lost common sense... Great going by standing on the tracks and shutting down the main on a BUSY mainline... Idiots smh

[@AR_119]

People that stand on the tracks shouldn't be told to move or get out of the way. Its a self correcting problem. Let darwin take care of it ffs.

[@ismayilmustafayev5822]

hammı durub bu nəhəng paravoza baxır

[@kidonkim4073]

I’m a South Korean Then l love steam locomotive 4014 come back but, Driver is god damm it crazy people’s don’t u-? Because,,, toooo much play horn~~