No. 4449's Turn

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:22 pm

First it was the 4014 in Popular Mechanics, and now it's 4449:

What is it about any publicity being good publicity? Actually it's good for enthusiasm, and some great details on the history, but darn it, can't the writers and editors get the terminology right?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/techno ... ass-train/

Robby Peartree · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:16 am **Posts:** 767

The southern pacific was not an all oil burning RR when 4449 was built. Can you say Rio Gramde or Tucson Division?

Robby Peartree

Heavenrich · **Joined:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:07 am **Posts:** 630

Robby Peartree wrote:

The southern pacific was not an all oil burning RR when 4449 was built. Can you say Rio Gramde or Tucson Division?

Robby Peartree

Not only that, the article says the restoration for the Freedom Train was done in a BN's Hoyt Street roundhouse, but for that to have happened the BN would have to have been created roughly two decades before it really was,

Nothing like rewriting history, ala George Orwell !!!

Bob H

Joshua K. Blay · **Posted:** Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:27 am

That part they got right- BN was formed in Spring 1970.

Joshua

softwerkslex · **Posted:** Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:20 pm

Heavenrich wrote:

Robby Peartree wrote:

The southern pacific was not an all oil burning RR when 4449 was built. Can you say Rio Gramde or Tucson Division?

Robby Peartree

Not only that, the article says the restoration for the Freedom Train was done in a BN's Hoyt Street roundhouse, but for that to have happened the BN would have to have been created roughly two decades before it really was,

Nothing like rewriting history, ala George Orwell !!!

Bob H

You are thinking of BNSF.

Bad Order · **Joined:** Sun Jun 23, 2013 1:16 pm **Posts:** 231

Weighs in at a whopping 433 tons, the article says!