Heritage railways, American style

[Hobbes]

Union Pacific has been restoring Big Boy 4014 to a running state, and they had it on steam a few days ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR7Q27cIEvo

[Martin H]

Lets see that monster thundering up the UK west coast mainline LOL

[Leading Observer]

We went to see No.4004 in Holliday Park Cheyenne when we out in the USA last year - it was under wraps, being restored, but when one of the Engineers heard us talking, he asked us to wait a minute and went and got his boss. Turns out the chap in charge of the project was from Brighton, and his mate had recognised our "Southern" accents. We were taken behind the scenes to see the work close up. Those things are mammoth bits of engineering.

[kitnut617]

There's quite a bit about this in the latest posts in cars/trucks etc thread

http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,37719.0.html