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MeghanIsMe ([personal profile] stormdog) wrote2020-09-26 04:23 pm
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UP Big Boy at West Chicago

I got Photoshop working again! I haven't wanted to post any pictures of the Big Boy locomotive that Erik and I chased until I could edit them to the best of my ability: it would be a disservice.

This is from the UP facility in West Chicago where Big Boy 4014 stayed for a few days for visitors.

Big Boy Locomotive 4014 at the UP facility in West Chicago
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2020-09-26 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Steam! :o)
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[personal profile] stormdog 2020-09-26 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Steam is so awesome! Look how happy that guy in the cab is! To help operate that locomotive is a memory of a lifetime.

Before moving, I also went to a steam machinery show in northern Illinois. There were a few dozen tractors, some smaller stand-alone steam engines, and other miscellaneous things. There were two particularly fantastic displays of working steam power: a tractor powering a sawmill blade and cutting logs into planks, and another tractor powering a threshing machine that was taking hay bales in one end and showering excited kids on the other end with loose stalks!

I should have video of those too. Depending on how life is going, I may find them and post them.
Edited 2020-09-26 16:54 (UTC)
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