[OKDXA] Mighty Fine Locomotive Ya' Got There

[Mark Beckwith]

 > None of these locomotives were HF-equipped.

But interestingly the locomotive in question, at 132' in length, is the 
size of a 75 meter dipole, and because of its exceptional girth, it 
probably has a low Q and will resonate with an acceptable SWR over the 
entire 3.5-4.0 Mc range.  Coincidence?  You decide.

_Mac, you are correct, I misread the web site I linked to_. Although I 
got to it by using The Google for "Union Pacific Bog Boy" and it was 
called "Timetable" I see now it is a schedule of events for railfans, 
not where the locomotive is going to be.  My apologies.

THANK YOU to all Oklahoma DXers who are not railfans, for your indulgence.

When I was writing up the results of the ARRL DX Contest that just got 
published 
<https://contests.arrl.org/ContestResults/2021/DX-CW-2021-FinalFullResults.pdf>, 
there was one enthusiastic young guy who was a CW DXer at home, but his 
day job was being an engineer on the BNSF.  That was quite a 
conversation. We should talk about what it is going to take to keep our 
hobby and service alive some time.   He had left a soapbox comment that 
sounded like there was hope for the future.  Wouldn't that be nice?

73 - Mark N5OT


On 2021-07-12 9:52 PM, Peter Laws N5UWY wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 8:47 PM Nelson Derks <ac5up at windstream.net> wrote:
>> The google is your friend:
>>
>> https://www.thecheyennepost.com/news/union-pacific-big-boy-4014-2021-tour-schedule-announced/article_9b9b94be-cd47-11eb-acb1-f7d4e930481f.html
>>
>> Also note the mention of a Big Boy in Scranton, PA.  That's most likely
> There are quite a few Big Boys still in existence of the 25 that were
> built.  But until a few years ago, they were all just stuffed and
> mounted in parks.  UP looked at, I guess, all of them and decided that
> the one that had been stuff/mounted in Pomona, Calif, had had the
> least environmental (or other) damage and that's the one that they
> got.  Plenty of video around of it's extrication from the park where
> it lived and then its subsequent trip back to Cheyenne, Wyo, for its
> overhaul.
>
> As I think I noted here before, UP also rosters a 4-6-6-4 Challenger
> (UP 3985) and a 4-8-4 Northern (UP 844).  I think I read that the
> former is being overhauled again (about 30 years ago, the FRA updated
> boiler rules for steam engines and steam engines still need periodic
> teardowns) while the latter -- which has never been retired -- comes
> out to work or pull specials every once in a while.    UPRR.com has a
> link to their heritage locomotive fleet website.  They also have  an
> A-B-A set of E9s and a DDA40X "Centennial", all Diesel, not to mention
> a couple trains' worth of passenger cars.
>
> None of these locomotives were HF-equipped.
>
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