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Big Boy
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Uploaded: 02/16/18 4:39 PM GMT
Big Boy
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Also on display in Kenefick Park is the Union Pacific Big Boy. "No. 4023 is one of twenty five "Big Boy" articulated steam engines operated between 1941 and 1959. It was specifically designed to haul fast, heavy eastbound freight trains between Utah and Wyoming, over a 1.14 percent grade. All of the Big Boys were coal-burning, stoker-fired, designed to run 7,000 horsepower at 70 miles per hour. They have been lauded in the industry as the highest horsepower, heaviest, and longest steam locomotives ever built." [asme.org]
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::biffobear
02/16/18 5:42 PM GMT
A powerful beast In It's time...R.
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I wish I was a Glow Worm, a Glow Worm's never glum, 'cause how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?
I bet it was kept busy during WWII, Jeff. Another good shot.
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People are like cameras--sometimes they lose focus.
When I read the title in my Friends list I half expected to see a fat little guy wearing checkerboard bib coveralls, and holding up a giant hamburger (made me hungry), but I like this better. Although their use has declined since that era due, I believe, to the interstate highway system, they were integral in the expansion and industrialization of this country, and any organization that supports their preservation should be applauded. Good clean capture, Jeff.
-Nik
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