3 entries match your criteria.
Related Historical Markers
Other Big Boy Markers
By Craig Swain, July 25, 2008
Union Pacific #4012 Marker next to the Locomotive and a Switch Engine
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | Locomotive #4012 is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. The Big Boys were the longest and among the largest and most powerful steam locomotives in the world. Even with their great size, the Big Boys were capable of reaching speeds in excess of eighty miles per . . . — — Map (db m19898) HM |
| | The 4004 is one of eight surviving examples of the world's largest steam locomotives. The Union Pacific Railroad had 25 of these goliath built, at a cost of over a quarter million dollars each. The 4004 ran primarily between Cheyenne and Ogden, . . . — — Map (db m95202) HM |
| | Twenty-five Big Boys, the world's largest steam engines, were built exclusively for Union Pacific by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, New York between 1941 and 1944. Each locomotive was 132 feet long and weighed 1.2 million pounds. . . . — — Map (db m95200) HM |
May. 12, 2024
