Well, in there he maybe one of the hottest (there is a giant boiler in front of 'em after all)... However, there is no doubt that he is the luckiest man in the world. Talk about an elite group of people... 4014 engineer.
I remember as a kid listening to that lonely whistle late at night in the winter time. It has to be the the most awesome sound in the world. That whistle and the other sounds brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for the memories. Steve O
They have air powered train whistles for big trucks. I wanted to buy one for mine but it was a little to pricy. I did have train horns though. Fun stuff.
This is when the engine crew actually had to work. My dad shoveled coal just before the Diesel electrics took over. Then ran the diesels for another forty years.
This video is AWESOME, thanks. It's so easy to assume all the engineers have to do is push the starter button, pull the horn, and put your foot on the brakes, lol. Wonderful to see the operation from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Loved it.
Look at all the people stopped by the railside to watch, take pictures and film 4014. This shows that American lost her heart to and never stopped loving the steam locomotive!!!
My grandPa use to take me on train rides from Tutuban, Manila to Damirtice in Baguio before the winding road up to Baguio. These trains remind me of GrandPa and he use to get me scrambled egg and toast sandwich from the dining car. Now at 75, my turn to take my grandkids 😎🇵🇭🇺🇲
Wow! It must be a amazing sight being in the cab! I absolutely the thundering chug of the pistons and the roaring sound of the whistle.Hopefully someday I’ll be in that same cab!
Incredible beautiful video! First I've ever seen from the cabin of a Big Boy, I always wanted to see how it's like to be in there! Thank you so much for this video! Hope you make some more of this goosebump material! :D
Boy, ol' Ed sure likes to quill...a bit too much, I think! But this is a really superb video - one of the best cab rides I've seen. The audio is just spectacular....you can really hear all the brake applications, injector operating, etc. Good show, Mr. Jones!
Im so glad they got this thing finished before covid, that would not be an option in the budget now to restore and old steam loco how amazing, edd you tha man hats off to you and your crew
I miss my Grandpaw. He Worked UP, and retired from there . Van Buren Ar. Yard. Ol rail days UP had a small carnival and all the food for family members that worked for UP. It was great growing up in a railroad family.
Don't forget it is the enthusiasm of the people across the USA that make them want to do it. The wonder of what these locomotives could to - large or small and how they Made America Great before the fascists took over.
Was the Ed Dickens at the helm as the Locomotive Engineer?????? Big Boy is like a faithful Lap dog, doing what it's told. It's also great to see no Computer technology guiding the Helm, but good old manpower .................
I remember the first day they brought big boy home in the days in the month as it was fixing big boy big boy will always be in my heart thank you so much for showing me the video of the big boy I will always love the big boy care thanks once again and God bless🙏 from Indianapolis Indiana thanks again👍
I didn't hardly like train's that much till I actually seen 4014 big boy on here I wished 4014 big boy came through northeast Alabama. But maybe one day I can see 4014 big boy I really like the sound of the horn
Fantastic video, as you got into the heart and soul of 4014. Really shows the operation and the fact that 4014 rides like a Cadillac. What is the brass lever the brakeman/conductor is has his hand on?
The brass handle is called the "firing valve". He regulates the amount of oil going into the burner with that, plus that atomizer which is a steam jet to break the oil stream apart to combust it more efficiently. When the engine isn't working very and doesn't have a high amount of draft being drawn through the flues towards the front of the locomotive, as is seen towards the end of the video while coming to a stop, he uses the blower, which is an artificial draft to again introduce air for combustion. The blower is shut off when the engine is working harder at higher throttle settings which pulls air through the firebox with the exhaust. There is also a damper, which again, regulates the flow of air through the firebox based on combustion needs.
What you don’t see in this video is the super fine notches for that lever. They’re very close together. Just the tiniest movement of the firing valve can, and often does, make a huge difference.
Great video! Imagine a gathering of train fans with each trying to outdo the other on best railfan experience. "I got a cab ride on 4014," would certainly shut them all up! RUNNING 4014, well, that'd shut up anyone interested in trains for good...
Train horn & bell make a good mobile ring tone thats one bigass powerful train bigboy 500tons Got to see that Vidja inside bigboy 4014 how they converted into an oil burner Hobo shoestring vidjas appeared weeks ago - one thing leads to another must be train vidja time .
@@Hogdriver88.... As a matter of Fact, I retired from a Class 1 RR as a locomotive engineer. What does the "Grateful Dead" have anything to do with this subject, anyway?
It’d be so much fun to drive these things for a living. Sadly there aren’t many railways left in the United States and all the ones near me are run by terrible companies. Sad…
I don't see any whiskey in the cab. My Uncle Ted a Fireman on a steam locomotive said in the 30's,40's,& 50's the crew were always drinking whiskey on the Pennsylvania RR, but it was common on all Railroads.
My only critique is that too much of the time, the camera is pointed at parts of the backhead with nothing of note on it. I would have liked to see more of a focus on Ed in the engineer's seat, the controls and gauges, and maybe a little more of that PTC screen.
@@FanRailer if I ever get to ride it again or the 844. I will be more alert of what I am filming. I was leaving my city (Mayor Jones) heading to muskogee with Mayor Coleman of Muskogee.
@@FanRailer PTC screen is boring like a 1980s video game. Nothing much to see unless there was something special going on. Trust me you would rather watch Ed run the locomotive
@@theknickerbocker5808 If you're sitting in the jump seat behind the fireman, the PTC screen is going to be in the shot anyway if you're filming Ed running the locomotive. The screen itself may be boring for the average viewer, but it does show train speed, which is useful.
And at about 4:20, you can both hear the stack exhaust and also barely make out the back pressure gauge needle reading about 15 lbs, which is equivalent to a substantial amount of work being produced by the locomotive.
Foi sensacional ver um OBC numa locomotiva a vapor construída em 1941. Como estava escrito numa placa lá dentro "SECURITY FIRST". Parabéns pelo vídeo. 🇧🇷
I'd like to know how they installed the PTC system? I think the Dynamo Puts out DC volts and PTC runs on Ac. Not to mention the Big boy is old school long before the PTC
I believe Ed spoke about how they were able to do that. In one of his update videos, back when they were assembling the Big Boy. Since that was one of the questions that came up a lot on social media.
The main portion of the system is in the diesel, which has AC power supply. The 4014 is equipped with a radio receiver and the screens in the cab to display information, both of which run fine off of the DC supply from the dynamo.
@@FanRailer Yes, because one of the generator's was retrofitted to power items like the PTC. Which is what I have heard Ed Dickinson state a number of times. Including in the video I shared in this post. So again one of the generator's on the 4014 was retrofitted to function the same way the generators on the diesel engines function. To power everything onboard including items like the PTC, along with everything else onboard the 4014. I've heard him state this very thing in update videos as they were disassembling and reassembling the 4014, in person, and in the question and answer video I posted that took place in Ft Worth, Texas.
See you soon. St Louis. Hope it’s cooler than Indianapolis. 97F today. Have asthma. I’ll be there if it kills me. Love you guys. That’s chicken feed to you gentlemen. 97. Sorry 😁😁😁
It's really only a ptc cdu, the big boy did not have a full ptc install done, (lack of batteries/ no room for computers and radios?) the cdu screen in the cab of the big boy mirrors the ptc installed on the trailing diesel.
It's literally the thing that's allowed it to be on the main line this year, so I'd refrain from hating it. It's a computer screen in the cab, be happy they didn't put ditch lights on it like the Omaha lawyers wanted in 2019.
The guy who is driving that and pulling the whistle is, without a doubt..........the coolest guy in the world!
Well, in there he maybe one of the hottest (there is a giant boiler in front of 'em after all)... However, there is no doubt that he is the luckiest man in the world. Talk about an elite group of people... 4014 engineer.
Probably had one Hella grin on his face too
Do you mean Ed Dickens the manager
@@Lazy.Train.videosAnd engineer. ;)
@@ryandunham1047yes 😂😂😂
Can you only imagine the feel of being in the cab? Feeling all the bellowing bass frequencies as that monster pants!
I remember as a kid listening to that lonely whistle late at night in the winter time. It has to be the the most awesome sound in the world. That whistle and the other sounds brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for the memories. Steve O
There aren't many things in life that give me goosebumps, but this POV sure did. Thank you Mr. Jones.
This is incredible! Seeing the engineer operate the whistle is amazing! Thanks for sharing.
They should bring back whistles, back in the day you could tell the different engineers by how they made their whistles "talk"
Or air powered horns
@@RailPreserver2K..... ??? All diesel locomotive horns, are air powered.
@@Romans--bo7br what he means is a air whistle probably
@@Romans--bo7br alot of them have electronic solenoid valves
They have air powered train whistles for big trucks. I wanted to buy one for mine but it was a little to pricy. I did have train horns though. Fun stuff.
This is when the engine crew actually had to work. My dad shoveled coal just before the Diesel electrics took over. Then ran the diesels for another forty years.
Wonderful footage! Thanks for sharing this. There are a lot of little details hidden in here that steam geeks will be able to find and understand.
Great video. Love watching Ed blow that awesome whistle
This video is AWESOME, thanks. It's so easy to assume all the engineers have to do is push the starter button, pull the horn, and put your foot on the brakes, lol. Wonderful to see the operation from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Loved it.
Look at all the people stopped by the railside to watch, take pictures and film 4014. This shows that American lost her heart to and never stopped loving the steam locomotive!!!
My grandPa use to take me on train rides from Tutuban, Manila to Damirtice in Baguio before the winding road up to Baguio. These trains remind me of GrandPa and he use to get me scrambled egg and toast sandwich from the dining car. Now at 75, my turn to take my grandkids 😎🇵🇭🇺🇲
So great! Played the horn like an instrument! Thank you
Who else can be sitting still watching these videos and feel the adrenaline flowing!!!
Thank you for these in the cab shots. As a hobbiest who has built two live steamers, I appreciate what is going on.
Wow! It must be a amazing sight being in the cab! I absolutely the thundering chug of the pistons and the roaring sound of the whistle.Hopefully someday I’ll be in that same cab!
Yes, the dream of many.... unfortunately, this will be the last tour for Quite a While.
Many thanks for sharing the cab ride video on #4014, that was really awesome!
This is some great stuff! Thanks for sharing! Looks like Ed really enjoys blowing that whistle. He’s got quite the touch for it.
Incredible beautiful video! First I've ever seen from the cabin of a Big Boy, I always wanted to see how it's like to be in there! Thank you so much for this video! Hope you make some more of this goosebump material! :D
That was AWESOME! That was a once in a lifetime ride for me. I loved every second of that video. Thank you so much for posting it.
WOWTF WOW !!!! thank you SOOOO much for sharing.. What a RIDE !!!
Boy, ol' Ed sure likes to quill...a bit too much, I think! But this is a really superb video - one of the best cab rides I've seen. The audio is just spectacular....you can really hear all the brake applications, injector operating, etc. Good show, Mr. Jones!
Im so glad they got this thing finished before covid, that would not be an option in the budget now to restore and old steam loco how amazing, edd you tha man hats off to you and your crew
I miss my Grandpaw. He Worked UP, and retired from there . Van Buren Ar. Yard. Ol rail days UP had a small carnival and all the food for family members that worked for UP. It was great growing up in a railroad family.
Arch Christian is my grandpaw.
My uncle, Don LaRue, retired out of Van Buren as well
Saw big boy come into muskogee awesome sight!
Fantastic I live in Coweta Ok in Wagoner Oklahoma great to see this. I am a big fan of trains especially steam trains.
I love that they modernized her, steam needs to return. My surround really brings out the life in the video
God bless Ed Dickens and the Union Pacific for making this a reality!
Don't forget it is the enthusiasm of the people across the USA that make them want to do it. The wonder of what these locomotives could to - large or small and how they Made America Great before the fascists took over.
Bravo!!!!!!!
Was the Ed Dickens at the helm as the Locomotive Engineer?????? Big Boy is like a faithful Lap dog, doing what it's told. It's also great to see no Computer technology guiding the Helm, but good old manpower .................
very cool video thanks so much for sharing it!!! love THE OLD TRAINS!!!!
I was there in Muskogee saw it in person. It was beautiful 🤩
A couple from England was recording by me and was so excited to see in life the big boy
Nice view from the fireman side of the locomotive.
I remember the first day they brought big boy home in the days in the month as it was fixing big boy big boy will always be in my heart thank you so much for showing me the video of the big boy I will always love the big boy care thanks once again and God bless🙏 from Indianapolis Indiana thanks again👍
This is one of the few videos where you can really hear that “slamming” when it picks up speed 🥰🥰
I didn't hardly like train's that much till I actually seen 4014 big boy on here I wished 4014 big boy came through northeast Alabama. But maybe one day I can see 4014 big boy I really like the sound of the horn
Great👍 thanks for sharing the action on the controls👌
Wonderful locomotive🙌
Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽
The best model train to ever have
How neat to see the view from the train and all the works inside!!!
Great video of inside the cab of the train - lot of work!
Any relation to the Atwood conductors who work for UP?
No relation
Thank you for a great ride.
I would love to ride in that cab any day
Me too!
only in the winter time...it looks to be well over 100 degrees
Great video. Thanks so much for sharing.
Very nice ride along thank you for this. It was Awsome
Awesome video, thanks for sharing it with us.
Great video! This is the first time I watch this.
I saw Big Boy two hours after this video when train arrived in McAlester OK and spent the night there
Nice catch! Great content! Just scribed, keep them coming!
saw 844 in Wagner 10-15 years ago...beautiful machines!
Wow, some wonderful amazing footage!
Fantastic video, as you got into the heart and soul of 4014. Really shows the operation and the fact that 4014 rides like a Cadillac. What is the brass lever the brakeman/conductor is has his hand on?
He's the fireman! He is controlling the amount of fuel oil fed into the firebox, depending on the need to maintain steam pressure.
The brass handle is called the "firing valve". He regulates the amount of oil going into the burner with that, plus that atomizer which is a steam jet to break the oil stream apart to combust it more efficiently. When the engine isn't working very and doesn't have a high amount of draft being drawn through the flues towards the front of the locomotive, as is seen towards the end of the video while coming to a stop, he uses the blower, which is an artificial draft to again introduce air for combustion. The blower is shut off when the engine is working harder at higher throttle settings which pulls air through the firebox with the exhaust. There is also a damper, which again, regulates the flow of air through the firebox based on combustion needs.
@@splitreduction Thanks. 😊
What you don’t see in this video is the super fine notches for that lever. They’re very close together. Just the tiniest movement of the firing valve can, and often does, make a huge difference.
That’s some great in-cab footage.
Thank you very much for posting this great video. It really looks good.
Steam locomotives are so appealing!
3:52. Notice the safety tag. It has 844 and RIP 3985…..
This is why im a huge fan of Steam locomotives 😀
Love the video! Thank you for sharing this with everyone, what a amazing locomotive.
38 WHEELS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE! JUST UNBELIEVABLE!
That's pretty cool! We do cab rides, but not like that! 🤣 Good stuff.
That’s so cool. Thanks for posting.
An old timer and his big baby! What a great video!
This vid is awesome, best watched with good headphones as there are stereo components. Thank you!
2:30 That rhythm gives me goosebumps.
The Majestic "Big Boy" Steam Engine 4014 showed Up and showed Out.
Great video! Imagine a gathering of train fans with each trying to outdo the other on best railfan experience. "I got a cab ride on 4014," would certainly shut them all up! RUNNING 4014, well, that'd shut up anyone interested in trains for good...
Look at all the people wishing they could be in the cab. I appreciate the video thanks
Very cool...
watching the experts run this train
I’ve saw UP 7173 before. How cool to see it again in a video
Awesome! How in the world does one figure out how to run this once extinct machine?
Train horn & bell make a good mobile ring tone
thats one bigass powerful train bigboy 500tons
Got to see that Vidja inside bigboy 4014 how they converted into an oil burner
Hobo shoestring vidjas appeared weeks ago - one thing leads to another must be train vidja time .
Great video. It must have been a completely different thing when it was coal operated. I wouldn't have wanted to be that guy. Hard work for sure.
Notice how Mr. Ed pulled onto Muscogkee and rolled to a stop ever so careful ❤️😃
Yeah I know it's a team effort - but can you imagine being the one who actually gets to drive that antique piece of history??
You don't "drive" a locomotive, you Operate it... like any other piece of heavy equipment.
@@Romans--bo7br Ok, Casey Jones. The Grateful Dead must be wrong then 😂😂
@@Hogdriver88.... As a matter of Fact, I retired from a Class 1 RR as a locomotive engineer. What does the "Grateful Dead" have anything to do with this subject, anyway?
@@Romans--bo7br Awesome 👍
It’d be so much fun to drive these things for a living. Sadly there aren’t many railways left in the United States and all the ones near me are run by terrible companies. Sad…
7:38 - Every bit like I imagined it in my childhood
Man, that is rad - rock-star status!
so cool, thank you
I don't see any whiskey in the cab. My Uncle Ted a Fireman on a steam locomotive said in the 30's,40's,& 50's the crew were always drinking whiskey on the Pennsylvania RR, but it was common on all Railroads.
Rule G its a no no
I so want to see 4014 in person I seen 4017 in a museum we have and climbed into it and had some pics taken but still not the same!
Nice to see a view from this side for once
It was blasting hot that day, The heat coming off the firebox was intense.
I don’t who’s filming but the viewing public would be more interested in the cab view versus the woods
My only critique is that too much of the time, the camera is pointed at parts of the backhead with nothing of note on it. I would have liked to see more of a focus on Ed in the engineer's seat, the controls and gauges, and maybe a little more of that PTC screen.
@@FanRailer if I ever get to ride it again or the 844. I will be more alert of what I am filming. I was leaving my city (Mayor Jones) heading to muskogee with Mayor Coleman of Muskogee.
@@aye3jay Thank you for your service to the public!
@@FanRailer PTC screen is boring like a 1980s video game. Nothing much to see unless there was something special going on. Trust me you would rather watch Ed run the locomotive
@@theknickerbocker5808 If you're sitting in the jump seat behind the fireman, the PTC screen is going to be in the shot anyway if you're filming Ed running the locomotive. The screen itself may be boring for the average viewer, but it does show train speed, which is useful.
I like how the sonalert is just duck taped to the PTC CDU cabinet 😂. Still a cool video.
Duck taped the UP way!!
Actually saw that like 20 miles away from wagoner
For those that say 4014 isnt under her own power... 9:35 she slipped the drivers at part throttle while slowing down with the air set.... Yeah
And at about 4:20, you can both hear the stack exhaust and also barely make out the back pressure gauge needle reading about 15 lbs, which is equivalent to a substantial amount of work being produced by the locomotive.
Foi sensacional ver um OBC numa locomotiva a vapor construída em 1941. Como estava escrito numa placa lá dentro "SECURITY FIRST". Parabéns pelo vídeo. 🇧🇷
I used to drive "long haul taxi" for these crews.
12 hour shifts and the train must stop to take on a new crew .
I'd like to know how they installed the PTC system? I think the Dynamo Puts out DC volts and PTC runs on Ac. Not to mention the Big boy is old school long before the PTC
I believe Ed spoke about how they were able to do that. In one of his update videos, back when they were assembling the Big Boy. Since that was one of the questions that came up a lot on social media.
The first question at the beginning of this video. Should answer the question you are asking.
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@@TheCrewChief374 a!qa
The main portion of the system is in the diesel, which has AC power supply. The 4014 is equipped with a radio receiver and the screens in the cab to display information, both of which run fine off of the DC supply from the dynamo.
@@FanRailer Yes, because one of the generator's was retrofitted to power items like the PTC. Which is what I have heard Ed Dickinson state a number of times. Including in the video I shared in this post.
So again one of the generator's on the 4014 was retrofitted to function the same way the generators on the diesel engines function. To power everything onboard including items like the PTC, along with everything else onboard the 4014.
I've heard him state this very thing in update videos as they were disassembling and reassembling the 4014, in person, and in the question and answer video I posted that took place in Ft Worth, Texas.
Great video!
Need to put those evaporator coolers in the windows
Awesome video!!!!!👍
Wow just. Unbeleavable
Отличное видео! Респект!
If they looked more to the right before leaving you could have even seen me.
4:50-5:20.... somebody needs to pick up their damn ditch-hay bales haha... its ready to cut again now!
See you soon. St Louis. Hope it’s cooler than Indianapolis. 97F today. Have asthma. I’ll be there if it kills me. Love you guys. That’s chicken feed to you gentlemen. 97. Sorry 😁😁😁
super aufnahmen
WOW bigboy 4014 is equepte with a Wabtec computer screen!
Wonder if that’s a screen for PTC?
@@garrettgeorge614 Idnk if that's what am thinking as well but it could be
It's ptc
@@garrettgeorge614, 9:13 gives you a good view of the screen. There’s actually two identical screens, both with the same view.
There you see King Ed sitting on his lofty throne in his mobile castle of vintage Alco steal.
Curious how much steam pressure is lost when yanking on the whistle like that?
Since it doesn't cause the locomotive to slow down any I doubt it is noticeable. But that's an interesting question.
I hate that they added ptc but I know it’s needed for safety but man was the big boy flying down the tracks
It's really only a ptc cdu, the big boy did not have a full ptc install done, (lack of batteries/ no room for computers and radios?) the cdu screen in the cab of the big boy mirrors the ptc installed on the trailing diesel.
It's literally the thing that's allowed it to be on the main line this year, so I'd refrain from hating it. It's a computer screen in the cab, be happy they didn't put ditch lights on it like the Omaha lawyers wanted in 2019.