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Re: [OM] Union Pacific "Big Boy"

Subject: Re: [OM] Union Pacific "Big Boy"
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 21:02:04 -0500
Some nice pictures of a great piece of history.  Thanks for sharing.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:51 PM, DZDub <jdubikins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm not really a railroad guy (though I should probably be because my
> grandfather and great-grandfather worked for and lived near the railroad),
> but I had the chance to take a short drive to see the one working example
> of Union Pacific's "Big Boy" steam engine as it arrived in Wheatland, Iowa,
> today and then headed west after a brief rest.
> 
> The engines were built by the American Locomotive Company of New York in
> the early 1940's for service in the northwest United States, transporting
> stuff through the mountains.
> 
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=23341
> 
> Wikipedia has a good article on this locomotive.  Makes me a bit wistful.
> 
> E-5 + P-L 14-150.
> 
> Joel W.
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