Video: Chasing U.P. Big Boy #4014 thru Minnesota. (Duluth, Owatonna: live, train)

[Pooterdunk]

It's a spectacular video of the world's largest steam locomotive highballing it through the State.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weUzhScDNps&t=115s

[demtion35]

Cool Video. This train was in Duluth, over the weekend, with record crowds. We drove over the top of it on the highway, and the smoke from the stack was so thick, it blocked the view for the cars, it was causing the highway to slow down because of the smoke on the highway.

[wamer27]

I saw it come through NE Mpls Friday morning. I was surprised there were 100+ people on the bridge and around it.

[Pooterdunk]

A lot of people were being stupid standing on the tracks and stuff like that trying to see it coming. I heard there were even people standing on railroad bridges waiting for the train. Good way to get killed.

[Lodestar]

We saw it in Owatonna. Looks like the guys running it were having the time of their lives.

I grew up on one of those small prairie towns developed as the result of the railroads. About seven or so miles between them. My neighbor was a depot agent and he had trains in his blood so bad that even after he retired he'd have to run down to the tracks when the (by then) rare train came through.

We kids would go down to the other depot (there were two) and ask the telegraph operator, another neighbor, to send a message to the neighboring town and watch the magic. It was exciting to us when a message came back.

Just goes to show Midwesterners will come out to have a look at just about anything. LOL