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MORGAN, Utah — In 1941, 25 of the largest steam engines ever produced rolled off the line and were dubbed the Big Boys.
Now, over 80 years later, Engine 4014, the last surviving operational Big Boy train, steamed into Wyoming and Utah for the Fourth of July."This is a railroad town. We're here because of the railroad. We constantly see the freight cars going by many times during the day."James Davis, Chairman of the Evanston Historic Preservation Commission said."We all have family members and relatives and friends that one way or another worked for the railroad.
With style, Big Boy 4014 made its grand entrance with the crowd cheering and wowing at the behemoth before them. BIG BOY The locomotive measures 132 feet long and weighs 1.2 million pounds, which is as much as three conventional diesel locomotives today. Big boy scott taylor After making a brief stop in Morgan Utah at their newly refurbished station, it was on to Salt Lake Central Station where a crowd of hundreds was waiting.
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