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The Big Boys mostly served pushing freight between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. After installation of extra heavy rail and other improvements they were in service from 1941 to 1959. After retirement their size (132 feet 9 7/8 inches between couplers) made them popular as stationary exhibits. In 2012, Union Pacific expressed interest in restoring one of the Big Boys, and the RailGiants Museum in Los Angeles offered theirs. It was towed to the Union Pacific Steam Shop in Cheyenne; restoration was completed in 2019 and Big Boy 2014 did a successful test run, and 4014 joined the 4-8-4 844 as one UP’s two operating steam locomotives. (The Challenger class 4-6-6-4 3985 was retired in 2010 and donated to a railroad museum in Illinois).
A chapter discusses whether the Big Boys really were the biggest steam locomotives ever built; they weren’t the heaviest, nor did they have the highest tractive effort, but the probably did give the most value for the money. The other contenders were triplex locomotives – the Virginian 2-8-8-8-4 and Erie’s 2-8-8-8-2 – these had another set of cylinders and drivers under the tender. There were not very successful.
This is a quite readable book, even if you are not a train enthusiast. There are plenty of pictures, of course, but they are coupled with text discussing the motivation for build a locomotive of this size, the physics of steam power, and the process of restoration to a working locomotive (I had the good fortune of discussing UP’s steam program with the program manager when the Challenger was on exhibit at the Democratic convention in Denver in 2008. She noted that there was always a Diesel in the consist to provide dynamic braking, that the route had to be carefully surveyed in advance to ensure bridges would hold up and water and fuel were available, and that the steam engines couldn’t go anywhere in Los Angeles County, California, because they couldn’t meet air emission requirements even with oil fuel).
For more steam locomotive stuff, see How Steam Locomotives Work, Superpower: The Making of a Steam Locomotive; The Locomotive Engineman’s Manual; and The Engine Driver’s Manual.… (més)