Union Pacific's 4014 Big Boy carries Francis Bourgeois through a pause
His 95-day-old video of the largest steam locomotive in the world is closing in on nine million views, with no new uploads this week.
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I Saw 4014 Big Boy: The Largest Steam Locomotive In The World!
Francis Bourgeois usually draws something like a quarter of a million views a day. With nothing new posted, the channel ran a little below that, though still well above a million views across the seven days and about 3,000 new subscribers. Quieter than usual, then, and still busy by most standards.
Most of that traffic has one destination. "I Saw 4014 Big Boy: The Largest Steam Locomotive In The World!" went up three months ago and is still bringing in roughly fifty thousand views a day on its own. Big Boy is the right engine for the man who made trainspotting joyful on camera: Union Pacific built 25 of these giants for the steep Wasatch grades in the 1940s, and 4014 is the one it brought back to running condition in 2019.
The rest of the shelf wanders. A Mercedes SL with a 500 horsepower diesel getting a ZF8 gearbox is a long way from a platform end, and it is pulling more views a day than "The UK's Newest Luxury Sleeper Train - Day 1", which kept Francis on rails in a softer berth.
Among the aviation and machines channels nearest his size, Alan Trucker is having a very big week and FarFlight a steady strong one, while Taking Off, like Francis, is running a little under its usual pace.
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Which railroad built and still owns the Big Boy locomotive 4014?
The Big Boys were built by ALCO for Union Pacific, which restored 4014 to running condition in 2019.