Availability - This project is currently in the development stage. If you would like to be included in any dedicated project mailings when they begin and you have not already advised us, please let us know using any means provided in our Contact Information.

Price: TBD

Versions Offered: 6

Production Quantity: 100

2/09/10 - I continue to receive numerous and frequent inquiries regarding the timing for the production of this project. To date I have remained mute on the subject for competitive reasons, but I would like to offer come current information for those asking.

It is not a secret that the Big Boy shares numerous components with the Challenger and actually a couple of other Union Pacific prototypes. I made the decision at the outset of the Challenger project to pursue a simultaneous development of the Big Boy project for logical reasons. At this point, we have completed the initial design drawings, selected the versions that will be produced and have started making some of the interchangeable parts for the first sample model. The Big Boy project will not immediately follow the Challenger into production for obvious reasons and the debut of the first sample model will come as a surprise when it happens. For those of you that have been anxious literally for years about this project, take heart in the fact that the project is tangibly under way.

The new prototypically dimensioned wheelsets that we are developing using a Challenger model will definitely be part of the specifications incorporated into the production Big Boys. I have added some new reference resources on the Reference Page and there will be additional prototype photos added to those that are already part of the project site in the near future.

6/16/09 - Our 'Big Boy' project has not been updated in quite some time. The demand has certainly been building as we have worked through other projects, but the time is drawing near to push ahead on the 'Big Boy. We are currently reevaluating all of our remaining previously announced projects to make a firm determination of what our production schedule will look like for the next 18-24 months and that will govern what we do with the this project.

As I have worked on the development of our Challenger project, the versions of the 'Big Boy' to do are more clearly defined now and that information will be posted in the very near future, but in the mean time, the version count does remain at six.

7/06/07 - Our 'Big Boy' project continues to move towards production, unfortunately, not as quickly as most would like! The order of production will most likely change in the near future based on the lack of progress in obtaining reference material for other planned projects. If you are waiting for this project be assured that it will definitely be produced, we have over three thousand drawings on hand and a complete set of builder's photos, so all is in order to move ahead when the time is right. Be thinking about the versions that we should produce and do not hesitate to let us know your thoughts on that subject. Stay tuned for further developments in the coming weeks.

4/3/02 - This project has a new position in our schedule. A further update will be posted in the next few days.