Jerry B44 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Was in Cheyenne, stopped and took some pix of 4004. It is in Holiday Park there. Thing is huge! I have the MTH model of it I run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Miller Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Jerry, thanks for the great pics. It is so big it is hard to photograph. Can't get any detail while trying to get entire engine in photo. Panoramic camera required. .......Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginear joe Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I saw the UP BB at Steamtown. It was shocking to see how big it is, as it came into view. I knew how big it should be. I was just shocked to see it in person. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman4449 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Thanks for sharing the pics Jerry. Every time I see one in person I'm reminded of just how massive these engines were, they are huge! It's a reminder to me also of the mechanical engineering challenge that existed in making a machine of this size and weight run fast and smoothly for so many miles between shoppings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry B44 Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 Here's a couple of more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar Posted September 28, 2015 Share Posted September 28, 2015 Was in Cheyenne about 15 years ago, and I was wery impressed of the size. But I think that the Challenger I saw in North Platte, had better proportions. But it was a great engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry B44 Posted September 29, 2015 Author Share Posted September 29, 2015 You get around ivar. I am 60 miles from North Platte. Took a lot of pictures of the Challenger there when I was scratch building one from two Pacifics. Worked okay, but bought the MTH one, like the 1/32 scale. My Challenger worked out to about 1/25 scale I think, it is huge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar Posted October 1, 2015 Share Posted October 1, 2015 You get around ivar. I am 60 miles from North Platte. Took a lot of pictures of the Challenger there when I was scratch building one from two Pacifics. Worked okay, but bought the MTH one, like the 1/32 scale. My Challenger worked out to about 1/25 scale I think, it is huge! In 1:25 it must be realy big, wow. I have been so lucky that at have visited your country 4 times. My daughter was first an exange student a year in Superior, NE. Visited her there. Drive from Chicago to Nebraska, and over to Colorado, Wyoming, Souht Dakota and back to Nebraska. Very nice trip. Next time she would study she goes to Sioux Falls, SD. Was there to and took a roundtrip again. Then she was home two years and then goes to Oregon to take a master. Was there two times visiting her, so I have driven the coast road from Washington to San Francisco both winter and summer. In the vinter From San Francisco to Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, back to Oregon. In the summer, 4th of July in Monmouth where Western Oregon University are. Then down to Crater Lake on over to the great Yellowstone National Park. Then back to Oregon via seattle, Washington You have a wonderful country. It's so different from Norway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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