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Big Boy Locomotive

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Article:
REV02165
Product weight, g:
700
Time:
Друга світова війна
Box, width, cm:
29
Scale:
1/87
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A series of articulated steam locomotives of the 2-4-0 + 0-4-2 type, built in 1941-1944. at ALCO's North American plant. They were based on the Challenger 2-3-0+0-3-2 locomotive design and were intended to drive heavy freight trains across the Wasatch Range (Rocky Mountains). The original designation of the steam locomotives was Class 4000 (Class 4000, since their numbering began with No. 4000), but in the world they are better known as Big Boy - this is the name that an unknown factory worker wrote in chalk on one of the first steam locomotives of the series. Subsequently, this nickname was firmly entrenched in the locomotives of this series. Big Boy locomotives are the largest serial locomotives in the world (the length of the locomotive with a tender is 132 feet 9¼ inches, or 40.47 meters) and the second largest in the history of world locomotive building (after the experimental steam locomotive PRR S1) , as well as the heaviest locomotives in the world (service weight of a steam locomotive with a fully fu
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A series of articulated steam locomotives of the 2-4-0 + 0-4-2 type, built in 1941-1944. at ALCO's North American plant. They were based on the Challenger 2-3-0+0-3-2 locomotive design and were intended to drive heavy freight trains across the Wasatch Range (Rocky Mountains). The original designation of the steam locomotives was Class 4000 (Class 4000, since their numbering began with No. 4000), but in the world they are better known as Big Boy - this is the name that an unknown factory worker wrote in chalk on one of the first steam locomotives of the series. Subsequently, this nickname was firmly entrenched in the locomotives of this series. Big Boy locomotives are the largest serial locomotives in the world (the length of the locomotive with a tender is 132 feet 9¼ inches, or 40.47 meters) and the second largest in the history of world locomotive building (after the experimental steam locomotive PRR S1) , as well as the heaviest locomotives in the world (service weight of a steam locomotive with a fully fu
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