-> TW>  But the Big Boy would have the best PR value to whoever operated
-> it.
-> True, but where would you run it? From what I've heard, those things
-> pounded
-> the whatsis out of the rail and ballast, and needed nice broad
-> sweeping curves.
    They somehow managed to get the thing to the Fairplex in Pomona, CA by 
rail, not by truck. There's a picture somewhere at the NRHS facility there 
showing it being pulled over Cajon Pass, so it's requirements aren't 
impossible to meet.
   As far as running it flat out...maybe the Santa Fe tracks east of Barstow 
to Flagstaff and beyond, out through New Mexico into Texas? Or the Southern 
Pacific in the same region? I think there's some L O N G straight sections of 
rail out there.
   I just wonder if there are any shop facilities still left that could 
handle the work on an engine that size, other than the Cheyenne shops 
maintaining #3985?
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