RETURN OF THE BIG BOY GE B36-7’s and B40-8’s

B36-7’s and B40-8’s

" Watch a Pike M-2 clearing snow from the right-of-way near Kirk and some beautiful snow scenes on the east side of the Cascades

From the camera of Don McCartney

This program was shot between December 2015 and May 2016

List price $11

RETURN OF THE BIG BOY GE B36-7’s and B40-8’sIN STOCK AND SHIPPING In May of 2019, Union Pacific made history. Big Boy 4014, the largest steam locomotive on earth took to the main line under its own power for the first time in nearly 60 years! The restoration was just in time for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. Paired with UP 844, the only steam locomotive to never be taken