Revell 1:87 Scale Big Boy Steam Locomotive

[WigWag Workshop]

Good Day Folks!

He is one of my latest projects, I will be doing a time-lapse of the build. There does not appear to be many parts in the kit.

-Steven

[deafpanzer]

Count me in!!! Always enjoy train WIPs but I know little about those machines. Was train used during the war or what decade?

[Leon]

Count me in.I was a trainaholic for a long time.

[Whiterook]

Oh SWEEEEEET!!! That's a nice size kit, too....looks about G-Scale in model rail terms. Actually, a kit like that appears to me to be one that is more fun to paint than build.

deafpanzer: First, what does "WIP" stand for?

Second...the Big Boy was indeed built during the WWII war years, but it was a United States based clackity-clack. It was the Union Pacific Railroad's 4000-class 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives, built between 1941 and 1944 by American Locomotive Company (Alco). There were 25 Big Boys ....but the really cool thing was that they were the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, with two sets of eight driving wheels, a four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox. Union Pacific...think mountain terrain with 1.14% grade hauling a 3,600-short-ton (3,300 to 3,200-long-ton) freight train. What this translated to was, there was simply not enough power to make that by one loco, so they had to do what is called doubleheading helper operations, utilizing more than one loco to make the grade.That was quite inefficient....the answer...the Big Boy!

[deafpanzer]

Mar 19, 2013 9:49:13 GMT -5 Whiterook said:

deafpanzer: First, what does "WIP" stand for?

Second...the Big Boy was indeed built during the WWII war years, but it was a United States based clackity-clack. It was the Union Pacific Railroad's 4000-class 4-8-8-4 articulated steam locomotives, built between 1941 and 1944 by American Locomotive Company (Alco). There were 25 Big Boys ....but the really cool thing was that they were the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, with two sets of eight driving wheels, a four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox. Union Pacific...think mountain terrain with 1.14% grade hauling a 3,600-short-ton (3,300 to 3,200-long-ton) freight train. What this translated to was, there was simply not enough power to make that by one loco, so they had to do what is called doubleheading helper operations, utilizing more than one loco to make the grade.That was quite inefficient....the answer...the Big Boy!

Thanks for the info! You sure know a lot about trains! WIP stands for Work In Progress. You will see it often here.

[Whiterook]

Ahhhh...thanks, I like that acronym!

[WigWag Workshop]

Updates coming soon, I was waiting on my new airbrush, now I need to learn how to use it :-)

[Leon]

Waiting at the station.Think i hear her not to far off.