World’s largest steam locomotive rolls through Chicago area
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UP also has an ALCO Northern, which has much parts commonality with the Big Boy. So they took the opportunity to re-make many parts on both locomotives.
There's some hobbyist rebuilding of locomotives in the SF Bay Area at the Niles Canyon Railway / Pacific Locomotive Association, but progress is measured in decades.
The law's intentions don't matter IMO -- just look at it this way: site operators not based in Europe and not targeting European users suddenly have to invest dozens or hundreds of hours of development to add significant (and most likely architecturally ugly) changes to their systems to accommodate highly unlikely requests from the occasional visitor from Europe, or risk breaking the law and risk not being able to set foot in Europe ever again.
Geoblocking is easy to implement and most likely already in place because these sites aren't allowed to show their content in e.g. North Korea.
The fact that you don't consider this reasonable says a lot about the state of our industry.
Bullshit.
Interesting history. It was converted to run on oil a couple years ago, in case you're wondering.
This one was sitting in a train museum in California for 50 years before the Union Pacific got it back; they them spent several years restoring it to running condition.
The UP has a some information about this train on their website: https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/index.htm
As orpheline said, it was at a museum in Pomona, California, for decades. It's going back there October 12th and 13th (full schedule for the trip not available yet). If you're going to go see it, though, be prepared for an unreasonably large amount of traffic, even by Southern California standards. Like, an absolutely absurd amount of traffic. It's amazing how much attention the Big Boy gets.
There are several cuts and copies of this on YouTube: the link below is an edit from the 1990's includint interviews with former UP workers.