(rshsdepot) UP Big Boy No. 4004 eyed for move to Cheyenne, Wyo., depot

["James Dent" <james.dent_@_itochu.com>]

-From Trains.com News Wire...

UP Big Boy No. 4004 eyed for move to Cheyenne, Wyo., depot

Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4004, which has sat in a Cheyenne, Wyo.,
park since 1959, could become the focal point of a proposed railroad museum
at the former UP depot.

UP engineer and Big Boy Committee Chairman Ken Esquibel told the Casper
(Wyo.) Star-Tribune that it would cost about $100,000 to move the locomotive
nine blocks to the depot. The necessary funding could be in place by July
2002.

But the project faces several hurdles, including the condition of the Big
Boy itself ­– it suffered water damage during a 1985 flood – and whether
Wyoming highway officials would permit it to be moved to the depot via
roads.

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