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Debbie's Servant
If you like old steam engines try to see Big Boy 4014 if it passes close to your area.
Here's the schedule.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm
If you want to follow it for the day here's the tracking information.
https://www.up.com/forms/steam-trace.cfm
Right now it's in Houston and will stay there until Wednesday morning.
In 2019 a friend and I followed it the best we could from Dunlap Iowa to Boone Iowa.
Debbie grew up near Dunlap so she told us some good locations to sit and watch it go by and told us where the road followed the tracks so we could drive along with the train.
It's fun if you can drive or ride close to the train to watch and listen.
When it made it's return trip through Iowa I rode up to Ogden Iowa and sat at the Lucky Pig and had a tenderloin while waiting for it to pass behind the restaurant.
Passing through Dow City
East of Dennison
Passing through Ogden
Pulling into Boone
Check out the fuel tank
I thought it had been converted to diesel but when I looked at the site tube the fluid was fairly clear.
One of the crew told me it burned recycled oil.
A couple weeks later when it passed through Ogden again.
Here's the schedule.
https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm
If you want to follow it for the day here's the tracking information.
https://www.up.com/forms/steam-trace.cfm
Right now it's in Houston and will stay there until Wednesday morning.
In 2019 a friend and I followed it the best we could from Dunlap Iowa to Boone Iowa.
Debbie grew up near Dunlap so she told us some good locations to sit and watch it go by and told us where the road followed the tracks so we could drive along with the train.
It's fun if you can drive or ride close to the train to watch and listen.
When it made it's return trip through Iowa I rode up to Ogden Iowa and sat at the Lucky Pig and had a tenderloin while waiting for it to pass behind the restaurant.
Passing through Dow City
East of Dennison
Passing through Ogden
Pulling into Boone
Check out the fuel tank
I thought it had been converted to diesel but when I looked at the site tube the fluid was fairly clear.
One of the crew told me it burned recycled oil.
A couple weeks later when it passed through Ogden again.