The bridge just passed the load test for the next 25 years.

Key take away here: if any city needs to reduce it's traffic speed buy a BigBoy, works better than any other traffic management system looking at the traffic. Fantastic video, and great to see such an amazing machine running.

@patrickcross1571

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a good ‘gawkers block’, am I right? XD

@Domino10112

2 жыл бұрын

It never looked so fantastic when it slows down. Lol

@cecedavis6155

2 жыл бұрын

Hypergolic-hilarious comment,; but true!! And yes, Big Boy is definitely a heart stealer! So majestic!😊💯❤️🚂❗

I can never get enough of this graceful giant! AND THE ECHO OF THAT WHISTLE!!!

@marliesyanke4580

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@natoo121

2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame speakers never do it justice. I got to meet that whistle in person and it's definitely one of those sounds you can feel the power of

@theworldaccordingtochris4370

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful isn't it.

@brax2364

2 жыл бұрын

@@natoo121 No comparison with Brit steam locomotives and their little girl tweets.

@ManagedPan1k

2 жыл бұрын

On my channel i have a short of the echo

Thank you Union Pacific, for bringing this back to life.

this may be one of the very best videos of 4014 available on the internet for public viewing. Excellent visability, good audio, nice varied fields of view, and multiple shot of the locomotive as well as the whole train in the frame of the video. Excellent.

Oh that is cool! And she's layin' down a real nice blues shuffle.

@marliesyanke4580

2 жыл бұрын

Real romantic of trains. Agree.

This is the first time steam has gone over this bridge since 2015, when Southern Pacific 745 went over it.

@theextremeanimator4721

3 жыл бұрын

It was made to do so

@nolantherailfan5048

9 ай бұрын

I'm surprised it can handle bigboys weight.

Amazing that that bridge can hold that heavy locomotive! :O That whistle is so sad and beautiful...

@ZeldaTheSwordsman

3 жыл бұрын

@j man That being said, it also helps that 4014 is travelling slowly (thus reducing hammerblow)

@danielulz1640

2 жыл бұрын

When that bridge was built in the 1930s the only railroad Motive Power was steam locomotives.

@somedayzo6

2 жыл бұрын

The whistle gives chills ........

@michaelsmodelrailroading7665

2 жыл бұрын

This bridge and its approach trestles were designed to accommodate double-headed 10-coupled steam locomotives of the 1920s and '30s.

@Dachamp2001

2 жыл бұрын

Back then Bridges were built to last 💪 RR bridges anyway. Plus they were double heading big steam engines with big loads

While there were many photo opportunities to be had, as the steam train rolls into N.O. there are those idiots who stopped on the highway, and parked in a travel lane. No respect for anyone else. But, that train rolling in is a piece of American History. What a site to see. Especially for those who never seen them running! Thanks for sharing!

@heckatight06

2 жыл бұрын

Thought it was just me a bit boggled by a guy walking into a travel lane on a notoriously narrow bridge. Smh

@Nareimooncatt

2 жыл бұрын

@@heckatight06 Same here. Enjoy all you want, just not at other people's expense.

@roadtoad7704

2 жыл бұрын

@@heckatight06 You should seen it before they added that 3rd lane. Yikes 😳

WOW!!! I got to revisit my hometown, one of my all time favorite railroads and bridges, and to witness pure power, prestige, and a railroad's passion in the form of 4014 followed by 4015 - all on a bright and sunny Sunday morning!! All that I can say is WOWWWW!! Thank you Union Pacific Railroad, and Fan Railer.

WOW. That bridge puts SP's Redding Trestle to shame. Thank you Fan Railer for another great video!

@gabrielbennett5162

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking the same thing! I used to live in Redding, around the time of the 1991 Cantara Loop Spill and still visit the area when I go out to see my grandmother in Red Bluff. I miss seeing a lash-up of bloodnoses rumbling across the trestle.

Absolutely Art...mechanical music!!! A lost time of quality and ingenuity!! An era that's truly missed! Brings tears to my eyes!❤️

Such a beautiful beast! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

This is just totally stupendous, what a fantastic locomotive crossing an awesome long bridge with a lovely train, so fantastic to see, well done to all involved from us in the UK. You guys are so lucky to see things like this.

All polished up, that whole train is a beauty.🤗

Thanks SO MUCH for posting this. I live in Baton Rouge but due to my disability I was unable to see Big Boy in Plaquemine or New Orleans. Your video essentially put me there which means more than words can convey. Have a fantastic day and thanks again...this made my day!!!

@FanRailer

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed =)

Wonderful, perfect video! We saw her at Luling, LA, Grassen Crossing. It was a beautiful sight to behoild! Thank you, Union Pacific and the Steam Locomotive crews!

That was amazing to see that great engine. Everyone wanted to stop and see the train.

@michaelmurray7199

2 жыл бұрын

It's not everyday one gets to see a steam locomotive in person.

@alexander1485

2 жыл бұрын

The biggest one.

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexander1485 the biggest running one.

Big Boy certainly draws a big crowd wherever he goes, doesn't he?

@jimmyhook4852

2 жыл бұрын

He most certainly does :D

I grew up in Bridge City and played Under that bridge as a boy! I can tell many many stories about that bridge racing Mustangs across it in the middle of the night the old bridge that is😅

Fantastic Footage FR, The whole country comes out to see The Boy everywhere it is running and it pulls a crowd biggly . That is truly what is still great about the USA in my book. 4014 is an engineering masterpiece, and sounds incredible. Well done UP.

@cecedavis6155

2 жыл бұрын

There is no doubt in my mind that Big Boy is in a class all by himself!! Same with his outstanding crew!!💯❤️🚂❗

Imagine being the one driver that doesn’t know what’s going on and you come up to the top of a bridge just to be greeted by a giant steam locomotive blowing its whistle to your left.

@radanju3

2 жыл бұрын

that's exactly what I was thinking

WOW! What an enormous steel bridge. Never seen such length before. Great filming ,Thank`s. Cheers from Sweden

The biggest of the boys over the longest of the Huey P. Bridges

That well in time beat she was making, clanking along that bridge just needed some people with a guitar, banjo and harmonica to play along with her 😁

excellent footage from up on the roadway level to the train, thanks for sharing it!!

Octogenarian here. I rode them a many a time in my youth in the 1940's and 1950's. I was in the US Army stationed In Europe and I rode them even more over there. For what it's worth they can get up some speed.

I wonder if anyone who is not into trains got distracted by this magnificent beast…

@maryclendenen9190

3 жыл бұрын

Me, lol.

That is the best sight. Like how the train is above the traffic.

I’d be praying that bridge is sound the whole way across! AWESOME shot! 😎🇺🇸

Absolutely astounding video!! Thank You very, very much for sharing this!!😊👏👏💯❤🚂❗

When a video literally makes your whole computer desk vibrate for 8:03 minutes. Awesome.

Thanks for posting this. She is a beauty. I been thinking all afternoon this was the shot I wish I had taken. I filmed her blowing by at 40 mph through Vacherie. That dude stopped in a lane of traffic to grab an image? Lucky he wasn't shot. I used to dread that bridge on a Friday afternoon, it was only 2 lanes back then.

@FanRailer

3 жыл бұрын

haha everyone else must have been too busy looking at the train as well to be bothered by that guy.

@danielulz1640

2 жыл бұрын

When did they widen the hpl bridge? The last time I drove a cross it, maybe thirty years ago, it was too narrow Lanes each way and no shoulders.

@andreworiez8920

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielulz1640 in stages between 2010 and 2016

@12799MaDeuce

2 жыл бұрын

All the cameras filming are probably the only reason he didn't get shot

Went through New Orleans back in 2004 and 2005 staying a day or two each time and the trestle north or the river is amazing -- watching trains traveling 60 feet over your head is quite spectacular.

The imposing Huey P. Long bridge is aptly named, for it's miles long. It reaches heights that can trigger acrophobia, and if a train stops on the curve it will be leaning over...just...a...bit. That's OK, just close your window curtain if the sight of things WAY down there get overwhelming!

@FanRailer

3 жыл бұрын

Yup! The rail bridge is 23,000 feet in length.

@maggiewickwire2936

2 жыл бұрын

About 4.3 miles long

@oriolesfan7807

2 жыл бұрын

Holy moly, about the same mileage of the Chesapeake bay bridge in Maryland.

@christopherboone9802

2 жыл бұрын

It's only 153 feet above the water...Houston ship channel Bridge is taller iirc...also check out the Rainbow Bridge in Port Arthur TX..that thing has a hellacious slope and between it and Huey, growing up, Rainbow scared me more...used to ride over Huey as a kid when my folks visited my aunt and uncle John Reynaud in New Orleans. I drive over the current span now twice a week..love the widening project they did..

Seen that bridge quite a bit, never thought I’d see the day. Wouldn’t feel too bad about all that traffic when it it was going over… that bridge would’ve been jammed with traffic that time of day anyway so business as usual lol.

Wow, very very impressive and cool. Thanks for sharing this moment. Thumb up also for the engineers who build this filigran construction which iis able to carry a 600t llocomotive and its train and wagons..

Its so unbelievably awesome that they restored this giant for use. I wish steamtown in PA would restore their static display big boy

@EvilTurkeySlices

2 жыл бұрын

They did a cosmetic restoration.

Nothing like standing in a live lane to take a video.

@FanRailer

3 жыл бұрын

lmfao, makes me feel a LOT better about pulling over on the shoulder for that shot.

@1badgmc91

3 жыл бұрын

For real. He wouldn't have missed his shot had he just pulled onto the shoulder behind the white car.

Wow, love that chime whistle.

Big Boy.................a true legend.

VERY COOL !! Some Good things ARE coming out of 2020/2021 ! Thanks for the Upload ! and Great JOB to the entire crew and restoration team for this train !!! BRAVO

Cool catch! I’ve been by this bridge many times when visiting relatives down here in the Eunice area. We pass through here all the time.

Hell yeah, pretty bridge, and a beautiful way to come into new orleans

This video is truly amazing 🤩 the location were right on point!!

I saw the Big Boy at a whistle stop in Huffman, Texas, a few days prior to this (Wed. Aug. 18). It was awesome.

I love the slow speed on this bridge, it really shows off all the motion rods. Wherever UP takes their steamers, they sure know how to make an entrance!

Great video. I crossed that bridge on Amtrak #1 the day after Big Boy was there.

Awesome…we had the honor of seeing it in Allen Parish, when it passed through, August 19, 2021.

Wonderful Thank you so much for uploading this without any background music to hear that Wonderful sound of the engine chugging away!

thanks for sharing! beautiful train! great video! 100%

How fortunate we are that his name wasn't Huey P. "Short"!

@FanRailer

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@andrewelliott4436

2 жыл бұрын

That would be "taking the pee" - as we say in GB.

Listen to it chugging away. WOW. The forces at work and the weight on the bridge are enormous.

Thank you for posting. Awesome

You wait! That!!? I did not know that bridge friend😲 Excellent, awesome composition and sounds, even a MACK could not be missed ( 7:31 )👌 Kind regards from Mexico!

Thank you so much for this video!!

Excellent job. Really! Thank you

After watching hobo shoestring - i,m now finding these bigboy 4014 Vidjas Inside the burner conversion to oil video was something else Imagine if all steam trains had oil burners . 500tons and a big horn Legend has it Whales in the Pacific ocean can hear bigboy when he blows its horn :)

From Pomona California to the big easy. Good to see UP putting miles on that big boy

Where's the Bridge City cop with his radar checking BigBoy isn't over 45Mph?? 😂🤣😂🤣

@BassandoForte

2 жыл бұрын

4.5mph... 😨 High speed rail in the US... 🤣

I was so happy when a by-pass was made around that bridge. I hated to be on it when there was a train up there. Made the whole bridge shake. Great video of it climbing the bridge though.

Now I see why you went to Nola. Very cool!

What a sight, and sound , super !!!

Great video - thanks for sharing !

Fantastic view !

I just love the moan of the steam whistle on big boy

nice of that guy and car to block a lane of traffic

@roger0929

2 жыл бұрын

Typical 'murican boomer who thinks he's above the law.

Brings back my childhood in New Orleans.

The big boy has come!

That bridge was widened in 2013. More and wider traffic lanes than the 1935 design. Amazing the slope of the long approaches are so steep. The kind of challenge a Big Boy was made for!

This is was right by my house what a experience! I hope it Comes back To New Orleans one day

Such a great view and I would never think that BigBoy would go over a bridge like this! Amazing captures and I love seeing how high and slow Bigboy is going through there. Makes me wonder how Bigboy got up there in the first place

@gregwhittington6277

3 жыл бұрын

With a diesel assisting.

@FanRailer

3 жыл бұрын

No diesel assistance here. It's idling.

@SDGreg

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregwhittington6277 Brake shoes on a big boy are expensive. Much better to use a diesel to use it's dynamic braking to save them.

@sterlingspencer2934

2 жыл бұрын

Those steam locomotives have power to spare the diesel is their for dynamic breaking and generating electricity for the cars not motive power. But it is available in case of trouble.

@karlrovey

2 жыл бұрын

@@sterlingspencer2934 They did have to use it for power yesterday. They had issues with the exhaust injector causing them to run low on water.

Awesome catch !

The whole video is awesome but the display between 3:36 and 5:15 when she is stretched out on the trestle for a full view takes my breath away . Thanks for such a nice video with no talking , just train.

Great videos !

Wow wish it would come to NE NC for a show.

@Survivor1547

2 жыл бұрын

I second that.

@Bryan-Hensley

2 жыл бұрын

Except drop the Diesel. Norfolk 611 does it without a diesel.

What an amazing view!

That whistle is so haunting, mesmerizing takes you back in time.

@1949crewchief

2 жыл бұрын

Have you ever listened to the whistle of the Shay locomotive? If not go have a listen to that. Talk about haunting especially in the mountains of WV.

They've added several extra cars since it left Ft Worth 10 days ago...

This is so awesome!

The view of the train at about the 1/2 way point in the video makes it look like an HO gauge toy train! Haha!

Good Work.

Great video

Awesome video

Excellent video my friend. Thanks for sharing. Big like 👍

This is awesome

I caught Southern Pacifics 4449 crossings the Huey P as it left the World's Fair in 84 It was also amazing ,not as big but faster!

Engineer blowing that whistle saying, "look at me! " an they are.

It looks like Big Boy is pulling one oil tender and two water tenders. Maybe one of them is a beer tender.

@danielulz1640

2 жыл бұрын

In New Orleans, probably so. LOL.

OMG!!! I USED TO LIVE JUST A FEW MILES UP THE ROAD FROM THERE!!!

One thing for sure while 4014 was on this 4.36 mile long bridge, everyone stayed at least 25 feet back from the track.

@danielulz1640

2 жыл бұрын

You can't. The travel lanes are adjacent to the railroad track.

Spectacular.

Headed to see her in St Louis tomorrow!

Awesome to see her still chugging.

4014 reminds me of the Japanese anime' movie "GALAXY EXPRESS 999" when the C6248 departs from the Tokyo Megalopolis station, and climbs the long track to launch into space; plus the "GALAXY RAILWAYS" follow up that has "BIG ONE" that has a Neutron blaster hidden under the cowcatcher, lol. Hi from up North in Green Bay, with his brother 4017 at the NRRM.

@theextremeanimator4721

3 жыл бұрын

Well...it IS featured in that anime

Absolutely Amazing 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

I love this big boy train 🚆 and my brother loves trains

Perfect!

Amazing that the city didn't sink into the gulf with the weight of that engine.

That's a long bridge! Probably as old as the 4014 :-)