lol, Big Boy caused a "mass casualty event"https://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/03/delayed-big-boy-arrival-106-degree-heat-lead-to-mass-casualty-response-in-berks/>Several thousand spectators — plus more than 900 excursion‑train passengers — converged on the station at 3501 Pottsville Pike for Thursday’s appearance of the historic locomotive. But as the Big Boy’s arrival was delayed more than an hour, temperatures climbed to 106 degrees, creating hazardous conditions for those who had already packed into the viewing area.>With more than 100 people requiring on‑scene medical care and 35 transported to hospitals, unified command declared a mass casualty incident to bring in additional resources. One patient went into cardiac arrest and was successfully resuscitated before being transported.Some other articleshttps://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/02/big-boy-no-4014-locomotive-makes-historic-stop-in-berks/https://www.readingeagle.com/2026/07/02/big-boy-no-4014-locomotive-rolls-through-berks-photo-gallery/This is near my home town, I would have gone but I don't live in the area anymore
>>2077292>Finished working 40 hours of 103 degree heat just fineAre these people overweight, elderly and too stupid to bring water?Did they stand out there unhydrated for 12 hours or something?
Is the train OK?
I thought this meant it plowed through a crowd of foamers because that would be legendary Casualties from people keeling over due to heat are casualties from the heat
>>2077294theres a lot of stupid people who at 50 years old still don't know how to not get heat stroke
>>2077295It looks like it's not even moving under its own power, so it's as OK as it can be I guess
>>2077294>Are these people overweight, elderly and too stupid to bring water?They're americans
>>2077317Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
It's a big locomotiveapparently has its own articlehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_4014
I saw Big Boy a few weeks ago in Ripley, NY. I had my old radio with me to listen in, and it was setting off hot boxes for axle #2.
>>2077292crackers down.
>>2077292I was there but I don't see me in any of the pictures
>>2077391Was it big?
>>2077392Yeah, here is a dude for scale
Hey you know if you don’t know what you’re even doing, nobody else does wither. lol
>>2077392For you
Has 4014, or any of the Big Boys, ever struck and killed someone, like how the CPKC steam engine did in Mexico two years ago?
>>2077434Not that I have heard of, but we do have more and more Poos coming to America.
>>2077295>>2077307https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tInDH2FeXaM
>>2077454>a thread about foamers getting heatstroke>/n/: hmmm how can I make this about indians?Mutt's law really needs an update for india derangement syndrome
>>2077508>Is something wrong with the train? >The train is fine, but the person is dead>The train is fine!kek
>>2077292It's like a chapter from State of Fear...
>>2077454Got 'em: >>2077540
I used to live in Strasburg and I got to see 4014 every year. Shit was so cash. Head down 36 about 10 miles and watch it steam past at ahout 45mph coming west from Bennett. Fucker shook the ground. Now I live out east and I need to get up to Staunton and watch 611 cruise by out of Shenendoah.
