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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 ...
The 133-foot-long locomotive, the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks, returned to service in 2019 and has made multiple ...
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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 ...
Cheyenne-based Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will make its first ever coast-to-coast tour this year to honor America's 250th birthday. The tour could begin near the end ...
The ground is impossibly flat, white with salt, and largely uninhabited – a no man’s land where not even cellphone signal can reach. The landscape seems to stretch endlessly as you drive through ...
The world's largest nuclear power plant restarted Wednesday in north-central Japan for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, as resource-poor Japan accelerates atomic power use to ...
India’s Concord Control Systems Limited (CNCRD) has penned a $5M (₹47 crore) deal with NTPC Limited to design the world’s most powerful hydrogen locomotive propulsion system. CNCRD will convert a ...
Above: Previous coverage of ‘Big Boy’ locomotive’s first coast-to-coast tour (NEXSTAR) — The ground rumbles. A billowing cloud of steam forms in the sky. Then suddenly, the 1.2 million-pound ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (WCMH) — The world’s largest rubber duck is returning to Ohio this spring for her third visit to the state, ...
(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 ...
(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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