The schedule for Big Boy's trip west has just been posted. Big Boy, for all of you non steam buffs, is one of the largest steam locomotives built. It weighs over a million and a half pounds (wet, w/ tender) and will squash your penny (and other change) flatter than a pancake*.
The eastern schedule has not been released yet.
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*To be more accurate, the flattened change will have a bit of an arc to match the RR rail.
The eastern schedule has not been released yet.
Union Pacific 4014 - Wikipedia
Big Boy No. 4014 | Union Pacific
No. 4014 – the world’s only operational Big Boy – was originally delivered to Union Pacific in December 1941 to support the war effort. After a multi-year restoration project was completed in 2019 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion, No. 4014 is the...
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*To be more accurate, the flattened change will have a bit of an arc to match the RR rail.
