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It's a cool train if you get a chance to see it. Pictures really do not do it's size justice.

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>“Big Boy,” a 1.2 million-pound locomotive, is back in Colorado after being restored to the world’s largest operating steam locomotive — and there’s one more chance to see it this weekend. Big Boy No. 4014 was one of 25 locomotives built during World War II. According to Union Pacific Railroad, they were 132 feet long, weighed 1.2 million pounds and were over half the length of a Boeing 747 airplane.

It's a cool train if you get a chance to see it. Pictures really do not do it's size justice. Archive: https://archive.today/m1f0O From the post: >>“Big Boy,” a 1.2 million-pound locomotive, is back in Colorado after being restored to the world’s largest operating steam locomotive — and there’s one more chance to see it this weekend. Big Boy No. 4014 was one of 25 locomotives built during World War II. According to Union Pacific Railroad, they were 132 feet long, weighed 1.2 million pounds and were over half the length of a Boeing 747 airplane.

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I was a captive audience to a two day Wyoming Big Boy chase in 2019 - Rock Springs to Evanston. This was shot from an overhead pedestrian gangway as it entered the yard in Green River the second morning.

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It is quite an impressive behemoth.

Edit: it was formatted vertical, so...