Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
A restoration journey of 5 years begins here! Watch as UP drags 4014 across a parking lot, then over Cajon Pass. You know how the story ends, now see how it all began.
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*About Pentrex:* For over 40 years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex is more than just "Pentrex Railroad Videos", we're also: Highball Productions, Green Frog, Donner Rails, Broken Knuckle Video Productions, WB Video, Valhalla Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Midwest Video and Revelation Video. We have nearly 1,000 shows - and all will eventually be uploaded to YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss any of the rail action.
*About this show:* Exciting footage from 2013 and 2014 when Big Boy 4014 was towed out of California, on her way to Cheyenne's Steam Shop for restoration! For more than half a century, Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 was on display in Pomona, CA. In 2013, Union Pacific began the process to move and restore it back into excursion service, which would make 4014 the ultimate rolling museum as it showcases UP's big steam era.
Before that can happen, the massive 4-8-8-4 would have to be moved from its resting spot at the RailGiants Train Museum. Plenty of work was required to get the big locomotive on the move, from the temporary snap track across a huge parking lot to getting it back on the mainline.
Several stops were made along the way to inspect the Big Boy. Pentrex covered this extraordinary move throughout much of Southern California. This "Big Boy 4014 Update" will show the tireless steam crew erecting the temporary track across the parking lot. Watch 4014 as it's towed by a front-end loader under the watchful eye of the steam crew. Witness the moment when a UP diesel coupled onto the tender of 4014 to the delight of cheering crowds - and then it was off to Cajon Pass and eventually Cheyenne. This is history as it unfolds!
0:00 Big Boy 4014, in the beginning
5:40 Bring out the model train track
14:07 Vintage car meets vintage locomotive!
22:02 The mainline journey begins
27:45 "Hospital train" arrives
35:35 Towing 4014 "home"
41:27 Cajon Pass
52:24 Back on UP rails
You can own this show on DVD, without the YouTube compression: pentrex.com/DVD-Big-Boy-4014-Update-DVD---The-2014-Beginning-of-the-Big-Boy-Miracle_4014-DVD
A restoration journey of 5 years begins here! Watch as UP drags 4014 across a parking lot, then over Cajon Pass. You know how the story ends, now see how it all began.
*No AI was used to bring this show to you.* Read about our AI Policy and how we get videos ready for YouTube at: Pentrex.com/AI
*About Pentrex:* For over 40 years we've been the leader in railroad video entertainment. See us at Pentrex.com and right here on YouTube, with the Official Pentrex Channel!
Pentrex is more than just "Pentrex Railroad Videos", we're also: Highball Productions, Green Frog, Donner Rails, Broken Knuckle Video Productions, WB Video, Valhalla Video, Main Line Motion Pictures, Midwest Video and Revelation Video. We have nearly 1,000 shows - and all will eventually be uploaded to YouTube. Subscribe so you don't miss any of the rail action.
*About this show:* Exciting footage from 2013 and 2014 when Big Boy 4014 was towed out of California, on her way to Cheyenne's Steam Shop for restoration! For more than half a century, Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 was on display in Pomona, CA. In 2013, Union Pacific began the process to move and restore it back into excursion service, which would make 4014 the ultimate rolling museum as it showcases UP's big steam era.
Before that can happen, the massive 4-8-8-4 would have to be moved from its resting spot at the RailGiants Train Museum. Plenty of work was required to get the big locomotive on the move, from the temporary snap track across a huge parking lot to getting it back on the mainline.
Several stops were made along the way to inspect the Big Boy. Pentrex covered this extraordinary move throughout much of Southern California. This "Big Boy 4014 Update" will show the tireless steam crew erecting the temporary track across the parking lot. Watch 4014 as it's towed by a front-end loader under the watchful eye of the steam crew. Witness the moment when a UP diesel coupled onto the tender of 4014 to the delight of cheering crowds - and then it was off to Cajon Pass and eventually Cheyenne. This is history as it unfolds!
0:00 Big Boy 4014, in the beginning
5:40 Bring out the model train track
14:07 Vintage car meets vintage locomotive!
22:02 The mainline journey begins
27:45 "Hospital train" arrives
35:35 Towing 4014 "home"
41:27 Cajon Pass
52:24 Back on UP rails
You can own this show on DVD, without the YouTube compression: pentrex.com/DVD-Big-Boy-4014-Update-DVD---The-2014-Beginning-of-the-Big-Boy-Miracle_4014-DVD
