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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by n2mopac</i> <br /><br />I couldn't resist posting this pic that I ran across today. I took this of my son a couple of years ago (he was 4 then) next to the Big Boy at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis (Kirkwood), MO. Really puts the size of these behemoths in perspective, doesn't it? <br /> <br />Ron <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />I lived in the St. Louis area about forty years ago and have been on that engine many times. In the past years since moving, I have been able to visit all eight Big Boys including the 4006 again and got to go into the cab on most of them. <br /> <br /> The 4023 used to be in Cheyenne up to the time it was first moved to the Omaha shops, where it was displayed for many years before last year's move to the park with the 6900. <br /> <br />They are really something to see. The models of the Big Boy are great, but there is nothing like standing along beside one to get your prospective correct. <br /> <br />Can you image standing track side at sixty or seventy per and watching one of these shake the ground??
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