Union Pacific 'Big Boy' Steam Engine No. 4014 (2025) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Union Pacific 'Big Boy' Steam Engine No. 4014 (2025) / Ron Cogswell
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Per Wikipedia:The Union Pacific 'Big Boy' is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1962.The 25 Big Boy locomotives were built to haul freight over the Wasatch Range between Ogden, Utah, and Green River, Wyoming. In the late 1940s, they were reassigned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where they hauled freight over Sherman Hill to Laramie, Wyoming. They were the only locomotives to use a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement: four-wheel leading truck for stability entering curves, two sets of eight driving wheels and a four-wheel trailing truck to support the large firebox.Today, eight Big Boys survive, with most on static display at museums across the United States. One of them, No. 4014 (seen above), was re-acquired by Union Pacific, and between 2014 and 2019 was rebuilt to operating condition for the 150th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad. It thus regained the title as the largest and most powerful operating steam locomotive in the world. Image taken from a YouTube video.IMG_7768 |
| 撮影日 | 2025-06-08 19:36:55 |
| 撮影者 | Ron Cogswell , Arlington, Virginia, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Laramie, Wyoming, United States 地図 |