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Here’s a web site that dealing with the restoration of 4018 www.bigboy4018.com/frames.html The cost was estimated at $2,000,000.00 The site has not been updated for some time from what I can tell so I have no idea what the status is. Could it be restored and run? All it takes is money, unfortunately a boatload of it! Turning the monster would be a problem and while the UP has been steam friendly I don’t see them wanting to mangle their rails running a 4000 on fan trips. You could hope that a class 1 wants to abandon enough right of way to provide an interesting run but the amount of real estate to build turning wyes at both ends would be rather large. In retrospect for a small portion (I’m talking 10%) of a pro ball players salary this piece of history could be breathing fire again, any body know a generous railfan ball player? The Sacramento rail museum has a restored cab forward cosmetically restored not running but looks like all you need to do is add water.
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