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How a Big Boy works

By Angela Cotey | September 6, 2018

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


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HowBigBoyWorks
Where does the fire burn? Where does the water boil? Where does it travel? What are all those pipes about? Our simplified drawing of how a Big Boy works shows how this king of the rails made and used steam to pull long freight trains up to 70 mph in Wyoming and Utah from 1941 to 1959.
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