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	Union Pacific Big Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Big Boy was the nickname universally applied to the Union Pacific Railroad's twenty-five 4000 class 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives built between 1941 and 1944 by Alco.
		The Big Boys were certainly the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation—in other words, combining two sets of eight driving wheels with both a four-wheel leading truck for stability at speed and a four-wheel trailing truck to support a large firebox.
		The Big Boy locomotives were created by the Union Pacific's need for a locomotive that could pull a 3600 short ton (3300 metric ton) freight train over the long 1.14% grade of the Wasatch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy (1030 words)

	Encyclopedia: Union Pacific Big Boy
		Union Pacific Railroad Big Boy #4012 raises a giant plume of smoke as it powers uphill with 45 cars at approximately 40 mph at Riview, Wyoming on a cold November 29, 1941 in this photo by Otto Perry.
		The 25 Big Boys were built to pull long fast freight trains over the Wasatch Mountains of Utah and Sherman Hill in Wyoming.
		Big Boy was the nickname universally applied to the Union Pacific Railroad 's twenty-five 4000 class 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives built between 1941 and 1944 by Alco.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Union-Pacific-Big-Boy (4370 words)

	UP-Historical UP Locomotives: Steam Locomotives
		Although Union Pacific was among the first of the U.S. railroads to introduce diesel-powered streamlined passenger trains in the 1930s, the capabilities of these powerful steam locomotives made them the mainstay of UP freight operations throughout the war.
		Union Pacific quickly began buying diesel locomotives after the war and steam retreated to a stronghold in Wyoming, where the big engines ran their last miles in the late 1950s.
		Union Pacific donated 46 steam locomotives of various types for display in museums and parks across the country.
	www.uprr.com /aboutup/history/loco/locohs01.shtml (861 words)

	Big Boy #4012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Large railroads like the Union Pacific Railroad, stretching from Kansas City, Missouri, to Omaha Nebraska in the east to Seattle, Washington in the northwest and Los Angeles, California in the southwest, preferred a different solution.
		Big Boys had over one mile of tubes and flues inside the boiler.
		The engines well deserved the name 'Big Boy' which was written on one of the drive rods by an unknown worker at ALCo.
	www.nps.gov /stea/bigboy.htm (446 words)

	Bowser - HO Steam Loco Kits - Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4
		The Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" are considered to be the longest and heaviest locomotives built by Alco.
		Big Boys first used air cooling piping supported lengthwise on each side of the pilot deck and later used Wilson after-cooled radiators as on the Challenger series.
		The Big Boys were the King of steam for eighteen years, but they might not have ever been built, for while the 4000 series were in the design stage, deisels were being tested experimentally throughtout the nation.
	www.bowser-trains.com /holocos/bigboy/bigboy.htm (313 words)

	Union Pacific Big Boy - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Big Boys were certainly the only locomotives to have the 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement in the Whyte notation - in other words, combining two sets of eight driving wheels with both a four-wheel leading truck for stability at speed and a four-wheel trailing truck to support a large firebox.
		The Big Boy locomotives were created by the Union Pacific's need for a locomotive that could pull a 3600 ton freight train over the long 1.14% grade of the Wasatch.
		The last service train hauled by a Big Boy was in July, 1959; most were stored operational until 1961, and four remained in operational condition at Green River, Wyoming until 1962.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy (845 words)

	Big Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Big Boy, a radio host on Los Angeles hip hop/RandB station KPWR.
		Big Boy, a Puerto Rican hip hop/reggaeton artist.
		"Big Boy", the first official song released by The Jackson 5
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Boy (115 words)

	Age of Steam Railroad Museum - Union Pacific Steam Locomotive "Big Boy" 4018 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Union Pacific's route across the Wahsatch mountains in southwest Wyoming and northern Utah provided a significant obstacle to moving freight.
		Big Boy 4018 was in service and assigned to Wyoming's Cheyenne-Green River territory in September of 1957, having received its final repairs at the Cheyenne shops in April of 1957.
		Union Pacific 4018 was officially retired in 1962 and donated in 1964, traveling from Wyoming to Kansas City, then south via the Santa Fe into Dallas.
	www.dallasrailwaymuseum.com /bigboy.html (323 words)

	Alco 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy"
		The first Big Boy, number 4000, was delivered to Omaha at 6 p.m., September 5th, 1941.
		A Big Boy had over one mile of boiler tubes and flues, and the firebox grate measured 150 square feet.
		Their nickname came from the words "big boy," which had been written on the drive rods by an unknown Alco worker in the factory.
	nalw.macfall.com /prod/bigboy.html (734 words)

	hamster press: Union Pacific Big Boy
		Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” was the largest and most powerful steam locomotive ever constructed.
		The ½-inch scale model of the Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” 4002 was built in Los Angeles in the early 1940s by Alfred Herman, a prominent motion-picture Academy Award-nominated art director, whose career began in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
		Herman is believed to be the earliest model of a “Big Boy” locomotive.
	globalmediainnovations.com /hamster/2004/09/union-pacific-big-boy.html (182 words)

	SitNews - The Boy's Toys by Bob Ciminel
		Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy" - The locomotive is manufactured by MTH Electric Trains in Columbia, MD. It is a commemorative edition (only 100 produced) honoring the 50th anniversary of the Train Collectors Association.
		The second is a Union Pacific Railroad "Big Boy," which weighed in at over a million pounds and had sixteen sets of driving wheels.
		These big engines can only go around a curve that is eight feet in diameter, and the wife does not smile when I lay track in the living room, but I only run them at Christmas.
	www.sitnews.us /BobCiminel/100604_focb.html (820 words)

	UNION PACIFIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Union Pacific 3985 with system map and 3 pins in a green over maroon mat in an 11 X 17 oak frame.
		Union Pacific 5700 with system map and 5 pins representing the major railroads merged into the Union Pacific system in a green over maroon mat in an 11 X 17 oak frame.
		Union Pacific BIG BOY 4004 and Chalenger 3985 with a system map and three pins in a green and maroon mat and 16 X 20 oak frame.
	www.railroadart.com /upgroup.html (172 words)

	Union Pacific Historical Society
		Founded in 1984, the Union Pacific Historical Society is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad from its beginning in 1862 to the operation as it is today.
		The Union Pacific Historical Society and Don Strack are proud to announce that they have collaborated to republish Dons Ogden Rails book of 1977 in a new and considerably expanded, redesigned format.
		The Carnegie Museum in Council Bluffs is the new location of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection that was last housed in the Western Heritage Museum (The original Union Station) in Omaha.
	www.uphs.org (661 words)

	Steamtown NHS: Special History Study
		By the 20th century, the Union Pacific had gone through the processes of bankruptcy and reorganization, and early in the 20th century experienced rejuvenation in the hands of one of America's foremost railroad managers, the legendary Edward Henry Harriman.
		Union Pacific Railroad Engine No 4012 is one of eight 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" locomotives that have survived out of 25 that were built and operated.
		Steamtown has claimed that the "Big Boy" was the "largest locomotive on earth," and while there is a grain of truth in that, it is also somewhat misleading.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/steamtown/shs2u.htm (931 words)

	Railway & Locomotive Historical Society - Southern California Chapter
		Donated by the Union Pacific Railroad in January, 1962, locomotive 4014 is a proud addition to the Southern California Chapter's impressive display of locomotives.
		"Big Boy" was designed for heavy, fast freight trains and was used between Ogden, Utah and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
		A full side view of the Big Boy in all its glory- This is our first experiment with a digital camera.
	www.trainweb.org /rlhs/collection/UP_locomotives/big_boy1.html (177 words)

	Aster Union Pacific Big Boy
		The Union Pacific was determined to haul its share of this traffic.
		The biggest of these big engines were built by Alco (American Locomotive Company) for the Union Pacific during 1941 and 1942.
		The Big Boys' used high pressure steam in all four cylinders, and incorporating up-to-date and innovative methods of articulation and running gear, giving stable and smooth tracking on straight and curved trackage alike.
	www.southernsteamtrains.com /abigboy.htm (378 words)

	Union Pacific Centennials
		The Union Pacific Railroad earned a reputation for using very large and powerful steam locomotives and in 1941 began using the largest of them all, the Big Boy, to carry freight over the Rocky Mountains.
		When diesels took over on the Union Pacific, the power of steam was not easily matched with some trains requiring as many as eight diesel locomotives to move freight over the continental divide.
		Meanwhile, Union Pacific, which had and still has excellent tracks, ordered 25 of the DD35 booster units (road numbers 74B through 98B) (Railfan.net Usenet ABPR Picture Archives) and requested that a cab be added to all future orders.
	www.steamlocomotive.com /centennials (982 words)

	ScienceDaily: Union pacific big boy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/union_pacific_big_boy (911 words)

	phorum - 'Bach Man' Message Board - Re: Big Boy needed!!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Place a Big Boy or a Challenger against a C&O H-4/6, an H-7, or an H-8, even an H-5 and see which is ugly and which refined.
		Big trains and their destinations are almost dreamlike deep in the human psyche.
		Lets face it, both the name "Big Boy", and the fact it had the most wheels of all the eight coupled steamers have made this a very popular loco, and I do think it is rather attractive in as much as I am not a fan of smokebox mounted pumps.
	www.bachmanntrains.com /home-usa/board/read.php?f=1&i=89922&t=89587 (4912 words)

	Union Pacific Big Boys
		Of all the Big Boys I have seen, from the outside, 4018 appears to be in the worst condition.
		During the end of their careers (1956, I believe) both Challenger 3985 and Big Boy 4023 were given general overhauls so that they could continue to run for a few more years.
		It has been said that it is not feasible to fire a Big Boy with oil, due to the nature of the firebox (which was designed for burning semi-bituminous coal from southern Wyoming) and boiler capacity.
	www.steamlocomotive.com /bigboy (2780 words)

	Railroad Art - The King of the Road
		A Union Pacific Big Boy steam locomotive drifts down the Western slope of Sherman Hill in Wyoming.
		The Big Boy was designed and built to haul huge amounts of freight between Ogdon, Utah and Cheyenne, Wyoming on this grade.
		The Big Boy was known for its Vesuviass Volcano-like smoke effects, as it made its upgrade.
	www.railwayshop.com /rwest/king-of-the-road.html (146 words)

	K-LINE Web Site - K-Line Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Twenty-five Big Boys were built exclusively for Union Pacific, the first of which was delivered in 1941.
		The sharpest curve the Big Boys could negotiate was a 20 degree curve.
		During the late 1930s, the Union Pacific often used helpers to move trains from Ogden to Wasatch.
	www.k-linetrains.com /products/viewPrd.cfm?prdID=FDADD940-ECF3-4D24-8F95E2BED9936704 (403 words)

	Union Pacific Big Boy 4002
		The scale model of the Union Pacific’s “Big Boy” 4002 was built in Los Angeles in the early 1940s by Alfred Herman, a prominent Academy Award-nominated art director, whose career began in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
		Herman and used to cast in brass some of the various parts for the “Big Boy” model.
		The “Big Boy” model rests on a glass-enclosed aluminum trestle and measures approximately 72” (183 cm) in length and weighs 180 lbs.
	www.upbigboy.com (271 words)

	Big Boy #4005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the Union Pacific "Big Boy" No. 4005, on public display at the Forney Museum in Denver, Colorado.
		A Big Boy is 85 feet 9 1/2 inches long without its coal tender, and 132 feet 9 7/8 inches with tender.
		The Big Boys were by far the more popular of the two locomotive types.
	home.earthlink.net /~jci/4005.html (263 words)

	Trains.com - Will the 4-8-8-4 Union Pacific Big Boy ever return to rails?
		When a Big Boy is running, it consumes between 9 and 12 tons of coal per hour.
		I know it sounds crazy, but a Big Boy or an Allegheny would be more useful than a string of diesels on the head of a train.
		I have performed some physics equations on my own, and found that a Big Boy could accelerate a train of five and one half miles from a stop to 65 miles per hour in about 26 minutes, 32 seconds, neglecting friction, in which time the train would have traveled a little more than 14.3 miles.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=23542&REPLY_ID=236817 (2299 words)

	HoMa's LEGO® Riviera Express
		The biggest steam engine in the world – the Big Boy – was allready build by serveral LEGO fans.
		The Union Pazific Big Boy was build as Class 4000 by the American Locomotive Company in the 1940's.
		Each Big Boy made over 1.000.000 miles till 1958 when the last Big Boy was put out of service.
	www.holgermatthes.de /bricks_us/bigboy1.htm (404 words)

	Big Boy Locomotive Items at the Forney Museum Online Gift Shop
		This Big Boy Combo DVD Part 2 brings you two viewing treats: a Pentex documentary focussing on Big Boy operations over Sherman Hill, and a 1950's television drama about a Big Boy engineer.
		The Big Boys were the stuff of legends, giants of the rails, revered for their immense size, power, and reliability.
		With their 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement, 132-foot long locomotive and tender, and 1.2 million pounds of loaded weight, the Big Boys literally shook the earth as they thundered by.
	www.forneymuseum.com /Giftshop_BigBoy.htm (325 words)

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