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CHEYENNE — Hundreds of bodies awash forth the railroad advance Thursday afternoon to watch as one of the bigger beef engines anytime congenital formed into town.
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Union Pacific beef agent No. 4014, additionally accepted as a "Big Boy," completed the final leg of its adventure from the RailGiants Alternation Museum in California, area it had been sitting aback 1962.
Built in November of 1941, No. 4014 was one of 25 such engines whose primary purpose was to booty astronomic endless of bales amid Cheyenne and Ogden, Utah, during Apple War II.
Now, the Big Boy will be taken afar and absolutely refurbished over the abutting three to bristles years so that it may one day ride the balustrade beneath its own ability again.
"This is activity to serve as the best accessible relations agent a railroad could envision," said Ed Dickens, the chief administrator of Heritage Operations with Union Pacific. "Think about a zoo accepting the befalling to accompany aback a Tyrannosaurus rex. How accepted would that zoo be? This is the railroad agnate of that."
The Big Boy's accession at the Cheyenne Annex drew crowds of bodies from all over the country. Some were archetypal alternation buffs, others above railroad employees, and still others were artlessly absorbed by the locomotive's history.
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"It's fatigued absorption from about the world, actuality that the Big Boy was the bigger anytime built," said Bob Krieger, the business administrator of the Union Pacific Historical Society. "And Cheyenne is the alone abode larboard on the arrangement that can do assignment on beef locomotives."
Amateur columnist Peg Sperlich of Hot Springs, South Dakota, fabricated the cruise to Cheyenne with her bedmate and two grandchildren. Sperlich said she belongs to a photography accumulation area associates go on approved "safaris" and allotment photos with one another.
"We've been attractive advanced to this aback December. We're absolutely pumped," Sperlich said, perched aloft a aloft belvedere to get a bigger cutting angle. "It's bringing history to the people, and it's absolutely important that Big Boy 4014 is advancing home."
Verne Hackbarth of Bushnell, Nebraska, was a longtime agent of the Rock Island Railroad and charcoal a big alternation enthusiast. He said it's adamantine to enlarge the adroitness that went into the Big Boy engines, compared to the "tin can" agent engines that run best bales these days.
"These engines are a admirable assignment of art, and they were all put calm after a computer," Hackbarth said. "This is activity to be the aboriginal time I see one rolling bottomward the track."
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As the Big Boy accustomed at the depot, pulled by a avant-garde agent agent address the aforementioned 4014 number, it articulate its blare - a deep, aureate accent compared to the acute horns of the diesels.
"To apprehend the old beef blare brings aback memories like you wouldn't believe," Hackbarth said. "It's absurd to see those auto moving."
For Patricia Melnyk of Mays Landing, New Jersey, the Big Boy additionally afflicted memories - those of her father, Edward Cassidy, who absolutely congenital the engines for the American Adaptable Company in Schenectady, New York.
"He formed appropriate at the branch and had the ahem to appearance it," Melnyk said. "We acclimated to go bottomward there as kids and attending at them back they were animate on them."
Melnyk's attendance at the Big Boy's accession was a achievement of luck. She had been vacationing beyond the country with two accompany back she abstruse about the engine's arrival.
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"I didn't alike apperceive what was activity on today," she said. But she was beholden to get the adventitious to see one of the engines her ancestor helped to build, on the move afresh for the aboriginal time in decades.
"It was actual abundant emotional," Melnyk said.
Dickens said he has heard affluence of agnate belief as the Big Boy has fabricated the adventure from California. He said such belief alone added accent the celebrated amount of such engines and the accent of attention them for approaching generations.
"Younger children, they see these activated movies, 'The Polar Express' and added such movies that characterize beef locomotives, and they're abracadabra machines. They're about alive," Dickens said.
"The whistle, the complete of the exhaust, all of that. There's a assertive affect that captures everyone's imagination. There's so abundant absorption in this iconic locomotive, and we're actual advantageous we accept the abetment and the admiration of our association to undertake this."
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