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Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day...
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Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:07:31 GMT
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On my way into work on Friday, I turned down the street near what used to be
Omaha’s Union Station (it’s now a cool museum) on the way toward the active rail
bridges that I like to drive under. I almost stopped the car doing a
double-take, though, because in a dirt lot that sometimes holds a lone tractor
trailer rig, there was the BIGGEST steam engine I’d ever seen…right there!! In
the dirt, off the tracks!!
The morning paper had a picture of this locomotive, Big Boy 4023, on the front
page, and an article describing plans to move the engine (along with a giant
diesel loco to be moved in later) to the local botanical garden’s new park in
honor of Union Pacific’s former president Kenefick.
I was fortunate enough to see them move this behemoth down 10th street today –
what a sight!!! Even though the drive controller was pretty sophisticated, I
was surprised at the low-tech support…this huge locomotive basically sat on
I-beams c-clamped to multiple drive units, steered by winching a cable in front
one way or the other. It was pretty cool to see this moving down the street;
you could easily walk beside it to keep up, and a crowd which had gathered to
watch did just that.
I’ve never seen something like this before, and feel lucky to have spent part
of my afternoon watching this. I took as many pictures as I could, and posted
them to Maj.com. Hope you enjoy!
Friday Omaha World-Herald article:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_np=0&u_pg=1636&u_sid=1357595
Saturday Omaha World-Herald article with slide show:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=1358791
My pics on Maj (big pic warning):
http://www.maj.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=86674
Peace and Long Life,
Tw0nst3r
P.S. That's my sweetie in the first picture, wearing the Nebraska
jacket...isn't the back of her head cute?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day...
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| In lugnet.trains, Tony Alexander wrote: (snip) I recall these units (or at least the DD40AX anyway?) were on some short track between the Airport and downtown that you could see from the road. I stopped one day (it was rather foggy) and got a hwole (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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