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Submitted: January 8, 2008
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Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boyby *markkarvon

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Other

This is the second in a series of railroad pieces I am doing. Union Pacific's behemoth - Big Boy.

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~MSKM2001 May 7, 2013

Beautiful work

~KplKabbage Feb 1, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

this is cool! they are planning to restore Big Boy number X4014

*markkarvon Feb 1, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks. It would be awesome to see a Big Boy in action. Now if Norfolk Southern would just bring back 1218...

~KplKabbage Feb 2, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

yeah... at least they still have a challenger running!

~dinodanthetrainman Oct 15, 2012

this is great

*markkarvon Feb 1, 2013 Professional Digital Artist

Thanks.

~dinodanthetrainman Feb 2, 2013

your very welcome

~jereese Jan 7, 2012

You have Big Boy running on right tracks and correct location. Most of Big Boy work was mountain climbing over the Rockies during the war years. The art work is great, looks like real thing. If you had much smoke from the stack, then you are not running the locomotive right. I remember old steam engines running through my home town but by time I left high school there was no more steam on the rails. There was 0-2-0 switcher was working up till mid-60's. The switcher belong to meat packing company for moving cars in and out to load product into ice cars. Now meat packer is gone now.[link]

*markkarvon Jan 8, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Well yes and no. On a good stretch of straight and level track a fireman can get pretty clean exhaust at the stack however a big locomotive working hard uphill will generate quite a bit of smoke as the fireman pours it on. Witness these Norfolk & Western Y-6 locomotives bringing a heavy coal drag over a mountain: [link]

In any case, buyers want the big, dramatic billowing smokestack. I will most always include some smoke from the stacks of my steam locomotive depictions.