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Little Look At Big Boy 1992 William Kratville
Little Look At Big Boy by William Kratville
13 pages
Copyright 1992
Never was there a locomotive like Big Boy Designed to conquer the Wahsatch grades of the fabled Union Pacific in Utah this giant of the rails was the largest simple articulated steam locomotive ever constructed -and it was the most powerful in terms of horsepower!
Twenty of the behomoths were constructed in 1941 by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady New York. During 1944 in the middle of the great war effort, five more locomotives were delivered to make a total of twenty-five such machines.
Designed by the Union Pacific at its Omaha headquarters the class reigned supreme on the Utah and Wyoming main line of the nation's first transcontinental railroad until 1959 when the last locomotive's fire was killed.
This type of locomotive was designed to haul 3800 ton freight trains up Weber Canyon from Ogden and through Evanston 'Wyoming on to Green River. Later, the type worked all over the main line from Ogden to Cheyenne. Wyoming.
This class of power, despite its immense size, was designed to develop high horsepower at seventy miles per hour with a one-hundred car train!
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