Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4012
by Gary Keesler
Title
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4012
Artist
Gary Keesler
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art Photography
Description
Union Pacific No. 4012, nicknamed "Big Boy", is a 4-8-8-4 type locomotive built by American Locomotive Company in November 1941.
It is among the world's largest steam locomotives and this display image shown here gives great detail of it's massive size.
One of 25 built, No. 4012 is one of eight of its type to survive the advent of the diesel era. Referred to as an "articulated" locomotive, because it has more than one set of drivers,
Big Boy weighs 1,250,000 pounds (570,000 kg).
This locomotive worked for 20 years hauling freight between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah, logging over 1,000,000 miles (1,600,000 km) before its retirement in 1962.
4012 was originally on display at Steamtown, USA in Bellows Falls, Vermont until 1984 when Steamtown USA moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Since the Steamtown turntable and roundhouse are too small to accommodate 4012, it has remained out-of-doors since its arrival at Scranton
SPECIAL NOTE: The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO,
ALCO, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.
The American Locomotive Company was formed in 1901 by the merger of Schenectady Locomotive Engine Manufacturer of Schenectady,
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