Union Pacific Big Boy
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union-pacific-big-boy-171-983617
title:
Union Pacific Big Boy
text:
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 River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they were reassigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled freight over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming. They were the o
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of American simple articulated 4-8-8-4 locomotive
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
date created:
2003-12-14T06:25:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T07:24:18Z
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