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The Union Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1962. The 25 Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green ...
Union Pacific 4023 is a 4000 class 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" type steam locomotive, preserved at Kenefick Park in South Omaha, Nebraska.Built in November 1944 by the American Locomotive Company's Schenectady Works, No. 4023 is one of eight surviving Big Boys and the only one that is part of the class' second group built in 1944, as all seven of the other survivors were part of the first group built in ...
Union Pacific 4455 0-6-0 1920 built Photographed at Colorado Railroad Museum in 2007. CO-23 Big Boy Union Pacific #4005: Steam 4-8-8-4 Forney Transportation Museum, Denver, CO One of the few remaining examples of the world's largest steam locomotives, a 4-8-8-4 type, of which only 25 were ever built, and eight remain in museums CO-24
Union Pacific’s No. 4014 steam locomotive is a massive 132-foot long engine that has been touring the rails of middle America since August. See ‘Big Boy,’ world’s largest steam locomotive ...
Union Pacific’s Big Boy, a 1.2 million-pound locomotive put into service in 1941, rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Only 25 of this kind of train were built and this is the last ...
Hundreds gathered to see the world’s largest operating steam locomotive.
The Union Pacific heritage fleet includes commemorative and historic equipment owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.The fleet currently consists of two historic steam locomotives, three historic diesel locomotives, seventeen modern diesel locomotives in historic or commemorative paint schemes and nearly four dozen passenger cars used on office car specials and excursion trains.
Union Pacific 4012 is a 4884-1 class 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" type steam locomotive, one of eight preserved Union Pacific Big Boy locomotives. Built in November 1941 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) at its Schenectady Locomotive Works of Schenectady, New York, No. 4012 was retired in 1962 and donated to Steamtown, U.S.A, in Bellows Falls, Vermont, and later moved to Steamtown National ...