You don’t know how much this means to us. We are in our 70 s & can’t go out. We rely on Utube. We both love trains. A lot of people don’t realize what an achievement this is. Thank you so much many times over.

Note how Ed's hair has turned white during this ordeal. A brave man to undertake the restoration of a neglected and abused engine. What a job Mr. Dickens and his crew have done to restore this beautiful machine to working organ.

I remember going to the railroad museum with my grandparents and the guide saying these would never run again. Im so glad he was wrong

Taking it easy the first 1000 miles so as not to void the warranty on an "As New" 4-8-8-4! Best video coverage yet - Thanks!

I've been a fan of steam engines since when I first saw one in 1957 when I was three years old in New York city where I was born. It's pretty amazing since that memory was seared into my head. The monstrosity of it literally amazed me. I've been a collector of railroad memorabilia although I haven't found much yet, just a 1940's conductor (?) lantern that I found a company that sells parts and I bought a kerosene tank a wick assembly and made it functional I also have 2 1942 glass insulators from a wooden pole cross arms. I am very happy to see #4014 brought back to life. I hate to see things of history disappear into piles of rust.

I feel so happy, touched, until my eyes tear drop to see that my favorite steam locomotif Big Boy live again and become the legend

Just fan-freaking-tastic. The world should never be without large, functioning steam power, even if it’s just for nostalgia. There’s something almost alive about that beast. Congrats, Mr. Dickens, on a gigantic job well done!

Brought a tear to my eye when the engineer yanked the whistle chain, and Big Boy let 'em know he was back.

I finally did it. I finally broke down and turned my pockets inside out and bought a USA Trains G gauge Big Boy #4014. It is slightly used, but with tender loving care, I hope to have her looking as new as the real one here in this video. Aw, I've wanted this locomotive for decades, but just couldn't justify the expense. Seeing this video confirms that my decision was a good one. How can anyone not love this locomotive? It literally is big. Powerful and with enough moving parts to go from here to the moon and back. The Big Boy, to me, represents everything we Americans really stand for. We just lost our way, that's all. However, we need to find our way back. This locomotive might have been left for scrap had it not been for so many people. People who came together because we all love trains and we all love this locomotive, affectionately known as the "Big Boy". Its amazing to see something this size, this huge moving along the steel rails. I sincerely hope & pray where ever Big Boy goes, people will gather and remember........ American greatness is not dead, but alive!!! 🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸🚂

Thank you for showing the interior cab. Would love to see the firebox.

"Good Morning America How are ya. Don't You know me I am your Native son" Such a feeling that song gives watching this video. True the song is about the City of New Orleans by the Illinois Central. However It about the feeling of Riding a train and the unique experience one gets from the rhythm of the rails. Just like the big boy it a feeling that i am glad to see return. Nothing like the sound and feel of the rails.

What a beast of beauty, very few will understand how much work it took to put this Marvelous monster all back together, thank you for a beautiful video and thank you Union Pacific for doing the impossible

Man I can' get enough of this stuff. 844 almost looks like a toy next to Big Boy but that machine is awesome by itself. much credit and thanks to Union Pacific.

Very cool interview with Ed Dickens and ride along.😎 • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂🚃

Can't even imagine what it must be like to be there! What an adventure! Thanks for sharing it!

Super unique views from the inside of the Big Boy, just amazing. Others are superb as well. So happy to see her alive again powering away with the train!

Thank you for sharing - Greetings from Norway and a fan of the Big Boys (having seen many of them in person on visits to the USA)

All right let's put all hope for the 3958 4-6-6-4 Challenger to be next for the journey to be fixed and join with 4014 and the 844. Build America Union Pacific.

I really enjoyed seeing this beast in Junction city Kansas last year....🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽😀😀🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽

Makes our UK steam loco's look like toys, magnificent locomotive all praise to the restoration team.

It appears they are putting a bit of a load on her now, starting to hear her chug and a bit of wheel slip in one shot. Fantastic locomotives and video, I saw 844 a few years ago.

She is soooo beautiful, thank you guys and gals for rebuilding her.

That's such an amazing sound at 1:05. It's breathing deep! It's good to be ALIVE! You hear it several times throughout the video. I never get tired on that sound.

Thank you THIS IS A VERY AWESOME VIDEO . THAT IS A BEAST . IT IS SO COOL THEY BROUGHT IT BACK TO LIFE . THEY ARE LIVING MACHINES . YOU CAN HEAR THE AWESOME FORCE OF POWER AS IT PASSES . AND THAT MOURNING WHALE AS HE PULLS THAT CHAIN . WOW !!! IT GIVES ME CHICKEN SKIN TO HEAR IT 👍👍✌✌

What a rebuild job! It looks better than new.

gigantisch einfach gigantisch und total schön. Vielen Dank, dass Sie das gemacht haben und uns tolle Fotos von dieser Veranstaltung geschickt haben

What a great video. Saw the #844 go thru here a few years ago. What a sight!!!

Now we need a triple header without diesels hooked up, 4014, 3985 and 844. Let's do it!

WOW. You can hear 4014s chuffing sound real well from inside the cab or it was 844. But still so amazing. Man I wanna get into the cab of this engine

Worth the wait. beautiful. next step, all 3 together.

I like how even behind 4014 844 is still working hard she is pushing and pulling while 4014 is on break in

Their majesties are back on the rails. Wonderful!

Rebuilding America... One steam locomotive at a time. Thx UP 👍👍

Thank you, thank you; best video yet!! More, more ....

Hold the phone in landscape when shooting video it comes out a lot better on youtube.

thanks for the up close and personal cab ride.pleasant an safe ride to you all.

Congratulations for an amazing job. Fantastic to see it back in steam.

Big Boy is back ,good job . 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

Awesome video just awesome. Words cannot justify how amazing it is to see this view.

844 looks like a Corvette trying to push bump a Winnebago, 4014.

Thank you for your recording of this great event. Like the on-board cab shots.Please remember for future, Landscape rather than Portrait for Railroad photography.

9:27 Did I just see wheel spin on a 600 ton train? Yes, yes I did :)

Big Boy is a bit like 1959 Cadillac Eldo - sheer pizzaz and pride!

Good stuff! Love the open country as well. :-) A sight I'd never have thought I would see in my life. :-)

Absolutely excellent! Thank you for this vid!!

Thanks for posting. Great video.

The Big Boy is back. Thanks for the video

Que alegria ver a Big Boy de volta à vida!!! Espero poder vê-la face a face um dia desses. Maravilha!!!

Fabulous video, thank you for sharing.

SO MANY Levers !! It is amazing

Well people you see the future of American Railways right there. And what an impressive sight it is.

Making BigBoy Great Again! I never thought it would happen.

Thank you I wish I could be there!

Great job on saving these historic iron horses!!

Incredible job people! I wonder if solar panels could be incorporated in some way. I'm not an engineer by any means but I was a kid in the 50's, lived close to a railyard and spent a lot of time watching and dreaming. I'm glad others are making those steamers come back.

Thanks for good video ! At time 6:39 it looks like two big boys with a yellow car in between running together; think it is big boy and another "844" doubled at head of train.

Now if 8937 was switched out with 6936 that would be a sight to behold. The steam monster and the diesel monster, power to spare.

Awesome machine and good video but Please in the name of God Tell that engineer to put on a (kromer) engineers cap stripes prefered! That is old school the engine deserves it....

The most brilliant idea ever: to film the Big Boy upright with the Handycamera ....

Awesome!! And that whistle is quite something! :-)

No 'cornfield meet'! So, I guess that was a good day! lol :)

This is surely an overpowered excursion train!

Your lucky your company footed such a big bill.we still run steam in the east.

9:29 Wheelslip on 4014's front unit brilliant!!!!!!

Great video

The UP 4000 Big Boy class had a worm screw from the tender to the fire box to feed it fuel and could consume up to 20 tons of coal an hour pulling heavy freight thru the Wasatch Mountains. Handing off its cars to the UP 3000 Challenger class was typical once it made it thru this range as the faster locomotives could handle the freight more efficiently on the Plains the UP travelled. Only one other Big Boy was ever oiled fired and it's the 4005 at Forney Museum in Denver but it was reconverted back to coal after testing it briefly to see if it was more cost effective. In its heyday the Big Boy could pull a train 5 miles long on level track unassisted and the 4014 spent nearly 60yrs on display outside in California and can be seen briefly in several movies like 1980s film BlueThunder. The first state line the Big Boy 4014 crossed after being restored in Wyoming was Colorado at night on a test run and the massive engine came and went from Weld County before rail fans caught on the next morning.

Need 1218 back to double head for sure

That explains why they are going slow. I thought that might be the case.

844 is a real talker! Just chugging away.

Nice catch 👍

It is difficult to appreciate just how massive they are. 844 seems to have a piston rod issue as well!

How lucky you have to get to actualy comandere that big boy. Im so jellous xD

Sure is a smooth rider. Some of that is due to smooth track. Some of it is due to the massive moment of inertia. A lot of it is due to highly competent running gear balancing both in design and in the rebuild.

Must be difficult driving 844 with its taller drivers behind 4014.

Steam locomotive Conductor uniform 101. Heavy duty cowhide gloves are a must! Hat is optional but recommended...

So I guess they're double heading the first runs of 4014 like they did the challenger to break it in. Plus it puts on a good show. It sure looked like they were taking it easy on it. Then they can go back to the shop and go over it good to make sure it's good to go.

COME TO BRATTLEBORO, VERMONT. WE WOULD LOVE TO WELCOME YOUR POWERFUL STEAMING THUNDER LIKE IN THE EARLY 50'S

Rip Big Boy Union Pacific "big boy was my favorite train until I saw the ultimate santa Fe.

@ 9:26 = Steam powered burnout (wheelspin of the first engine) just in case you were wondering how powerful these steam engines are.

Very Good. Abraços, Brasil.

I hope they bring her out west would love to see it

Except for the folks who insist on holding their phones in a portrait/vertical format, this is a great video. I've wondered if people who make portrait videos also mount their TVs sideways.

I gonna do this in 7 1/2" inch gauge of The Great Race to Ogden with Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 and Union Pacific FEF-3 #844 at a house in Byers, CO. This house has 2,283 acres.

Some days more to all the pieces will have the correct adjustments and the big boy will run only she. in this tests 2 locomotives(1 steam and other diesel) help a little. Is logic,the rings may adjusti to the cylinders,the bearings,all the levers, valves,etc.

"It's Alive!"

I would love to see one of the DM&IR Yellowstones back on the rails!

Is it me or is there a lot of rod noise coming off the 4014 - is that normal?

Hey does anyone know how far east they will be going? Would love to see in person!

Da Sie nur Dampflokomotivführer in dieser tollen 4014.Führ sein wollen, ist der Lokführer sicherlich ein großes Ereignis, auch wenn ich denke, dass es nicht einfach ist. Aber er macht es einfach toll.

triple header boys

I do think it quite amazing that Ed knows how to drive this thing, when has he ever done it before? Can you just go from one steam engine to another that simply?

Videographers know to Hold the phone in landscape when shooting video it comes out a lot better on youtube.

Is it just me, or was 844 pushing 4014 at the 11:02 mark? Please don't misunderstand, I'm thrilled to see 4014 up and running and I will see it in person some day, but did they bite off more than they could chew for it's maiden voyage?

first video of 4014 wheel slip in 60 years

Do they have 2 qualified engineers when they go over the road? 1 qualified on the engine and 1 qualified on the section of track they are running over?

now to see 4014 and 844 drag 200 intermodel cars for a revenue run

Great!!! A quesion: why is there always a Diesel locomotive in the train? The weight does'nt require it.

Great to see the inside of the cab. Can anyone tell me, is this locomotive still fired by coal, or has it been converted to burning oil?

Why not more cars for the break in? N&W 611 pulled 20 Pullman’s on its own first time out after a 20 year break no diesel in the consist and that was in the steep Virginia mountain country.

Awesome just awesome. Wish they'd focused a little more on the controls. I see they added a radio. Must be battery powered. So, why 2 steam and 1 diesel? Was the diesel/electric along for back up? They sure didn't the power