Union Pacific's Big Boy gets a big welcome in Omaha

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Happy 150th anniversary, the (not really) transcontinental railroad

Thousands come from across the country for the Big Boy

Thousands come from across the country for the Big Boy
By Ramsey Scott Wyoming Tribune Eagle May 5, 2019

CHEYENNE – The air was thick with excitement, anticipation and the smell of oil and steam mixed together as the Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 let out a mighty bellow and started on the tracks toward history Saturday.

More than a thousand people crowded every viewpoint they could find to watch the 4014 make its new maiden voyage out of Cheyenne after almost 60 years of retirement. The newly refurbished train has undergone years of rehabilitation by UP in anticipation of this trip to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Big Boy 4014 departed Cheyenne on Saturday morning and headed to Harriman, Laramie and Medicine Bow before stopping for the night in Rawlins. The goal is to get to Ogden by Thursday for the city’s Heritage Festival, before heading back to Cheyenne by May 19.

This trip has been marked on the calendars of train lovers the world over as they have waited with anticipation for this behemoth of a locomotive to be brought back to life. Despite some serious doubt that a train that had sat idle for more than half a century could ever operate again, the team at the Union Pacific Steam Shop in Cheyenne made it happen. And just in time for the celebration Saturday.
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