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One of the world's biggest locomotives was as long as a Boeing 747 and was powered by a coal-burning turbine that ate itself
The Union Pacific Railroad used to be obsessed with power. The railroad spent decades searching for and developing one locomotive to rule them all. This search resulted in icons like the Big Boy and ...
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World’s largest steam locomotive plans historic tour for America’s 250th birthday
The US is preparing another historic coast-to-coast journey for Big Boy 4014, the world’s ...
The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Utah this spring in the first leg of its first-ever coast-to-coast tour, Union Pacific announced.
(NEXSTAR) — The ground rumbles. A billowing cloud of steam forms in the sky. Then suddenly, the 1.2 million-pound locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 is pulling into a station near you. It won’t be ...
The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.
(NEXSTAR) – There will be countless celebrations this year in honor of America’s semiquincentennial (aka, its 250th anniversary), but none may be as massive as a 1.2 million-pound locomotive rolling ...
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