That's One Big Steam Locomotive-- Part 1

From the May 12, 2019, Chicago Tribune  "Steam locomotive makes big debut for transcontinental party" by Mead Gruver.

It's longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 18 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.

The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne this month after five years of work.  It will then set out on a yearlong tour to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s.  Of the 25 built by the American Locomotive Co. in Schenecady, New York from 1941 to 1944, eight remain, but only No. 4014 is still fully operational.

They were engineered for steep mountain grades and each Big Boy had two huge engines beneath a 250-ton boiler able to hold enough water to cover an area the size of a basketball court to the depth of a high-top shoe.

That's One Big Boy!!  --CootLoc