MTH Premier UP Big Boy (4-8-8-4) O-Gauge Steam Locomotive

I got an email asking about the pulling power of a single Big Boy (the video I already have here shows it double-headed). Here's a new video showing a single Big Boy hauling its auxiliary tender and 53 heavy scale freight cars. It's limited not by weight but by the size of my layout -- the Big Boy is pretty much chasing its own caboose. If I had the room, it could easily haul a hundred cars; as it is, the train in this video is more than one-half scale mile long! Please visit my web site - http://www.toytrains1.com - to see lots more videos of model (and real) trains in action! A NEW VIDEO OF THE BIG BOY HAS BEEN SHOT IN TRUE HD 1080p! See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpMciMl9m0A

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• O-gauge
• MTH
• Premier
• UP
• Union
• Pacific
• Big
• Boy
• model
• railroad
• toy
• train
• steam
• locomotive
• lionel
• PS1
• PS2

[toytrains1]

Big Boy was the longest. Allegheny was widest, tallest, and heaviest. Size doesn't equate with the number of drivers.

[Triplex5014]

What?!?!?!?!? Triplex was longer than the Big Boy in all regards!!!

[toytrains1]

Sorry, but no. You need to look up the specs and see for yourself. Big Boys were approx. 132 feet long. The Triplex was only about 91 feet long.

[toytrains1]

O-72

[toytrains1]

Guys, let's leave the brand wars elsewhere, OK?

[toytrains1]

First, these aren't Lionel, they're MTH. Second, to me, it'w the weenie trains that look like toys. I mean, if you sneeze around them, it's pretty much a scale hurricane that blows them off the tracks! :) To each his own.

[nardp96]

can u post a video of your entire layout?

[musicmakr]

hhahaha... it looks ridiculous navigating that first bend... but its a beautiful engine

[princenoah21]

I'm not familiar with this O-Gauge track. What is it?

[happy95604]

@pensyturbine ya it is

[timbonjovi]

Billboard reefers are one of my favorites, nice vid

[pensyturbine]

@Triplex5014 the at&sf 3000 is the longest period

[racerboy23432]

how would i use toyota tech. ... i would use it to tell them buzz off

[somestupiedpeople1]

How much $

[angrygermankidfan100]

the big one



[UP9000Rick]

Sherman Hill is not part of the Wahsach Mts. It's in eastern Wyoming between Cheyenne and Laramie. The Big Boys were built to handle the Wahsach grade from Ogden to Green River. They were so successful that they ended up on Sherman Hill as well. Even ran as far east as North Platte, Nebraska.

[Beemerboy324]

I have always wondered how they actually articulated these monsters and no movie or video ever showed it. Thanks for actually showing it. I could run the first third of it over and over to study it. So it appears that the steam pipe on each side is articulated at the drive cyl and again above the drive wheels. Pretty cool set up. What a marvelous example of mechanical movement. Thanks for show the detail.

[thomasVSstewie]

What about the 2-10-10-2? They look bigger then the big boy