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Mon, 12 May 2014 13:59:47 -0400
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Huge Big Boy Steam Locomotive [from Schenectady] Coming Back to Life
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known
as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a
6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the
mountains of Wyoming and Utah.

It's been silent for half a century, pushed aside by more efficient
diesels, but now it's coming back to life. The Union Pacific Railroad
is embarking on a yearslong restoration project that will put No. 4014
back to work pulling special excursion trains.

<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/huge-big-boy-steam-locomotive-coming-back-life-0>

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library

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