Big Boy

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Can anyone tell me which frequency I can hear the Big Boy locomotive coming into Chicago today?

 

[N5TWB]

Can anyone tell me which frequency I can hear the Big Boy locomotive coming into Chicago today?

When 844 visited OK in 2007 for the state centennial, I found them on the UP road channels for whatever sub they were occupying. All you should need to know is where they are coming from to be able to identify which sub they are on for that segment. Here's a link to find 4014 on its current journey:

Steam Locomotive Tracking

Track Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 as it travels across our 23 state network.

www.up.com

At this moment as I post, 4014 is stopped near the West Chicago PD, just southwest of the Metra West Chicago station. I'd check the Aurora or Mendota Subdivision road channels.

 

[cbehr91]

When 844 visited OK in 2007 for the state centennial, I found them on the UP road channels for whatever sub they were occupying. All you should need to know is where they are coming from to be able to identify which sub they are on for that segment. Here's a link to find 4014 on its current journey:

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At this moment as I post, 4014 is stopped near the West Chicago PD, just southwest of the Metra West Chicago station. I'd check the Aurora or Mendota Subdivision road channels.

The Aurora and Mendota Subdivisions are BNSF lines (different and competing railroad.)

Per the schedule the Big Boy isn't moving again until Tuesday, when it will move to Cedar Rapids, Iowa via the Geneva and Boone Subdivisions. Frequencies for those are 160.890 and 161.040. I'm not 100% sure where the limits are of those frequencies, but both are used.

 

[VASCAR2]

I took my Grandson to see Big Boy, huge crowd around Rochelle.

 

[N0BKD]

UP Big Boy 4014 is in Salina, Kansas today using 160.605 as maintenance operations.