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51 relations: American Locomotive Company, Articulated locomotive, Associated Press, Bellows Falls, Vermont, Bituminous coal, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Coal, Dallas, Denver, Diesel locomotive, Diesel–electric transmission, Double heading, Firebox (steam engine), Forney Transportation Museum, Frisco, Texas, Grade (slope), Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green River, Wyoming, Kenefick Park, Laramie, Wyoming, Mallet locomotive, Museum of the American Railroad, Museum of Transportation, National Park Service, National Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, Overland Trail, RailGiants Train Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Standard-gauge railway, Steam locomotive, Steamtown National Historic Site, Steamtown, U.S.A., Union Pacific 4006, Union Pacific 4012, Union Pacific 4014, Union Pacific 844, Union Pacific Challenger, Union Pacific FEF Series, Union Pacific GTELs, Union Pacific Railroad, Wasatch Range, Wheel arrangement, World War I, Wyoming, Yahoo! News, 2-8-8-0, 4-6-6-4, ..., 4-8-8-4. Expand index (1 more) »
American Locomotive Company
The American Locomotive Company, often shortened to ALCO, ALCo or Alco, designed, built and sold steam locomotives, diesel-electric locomotives, diesel engines and generators, specialized forgings, high quality steel, armed tanks and automobiles and produced nuclear energy.
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Articulated locomotive
The term "articulated locomotive" usually means a steam locomotive with one or more engine units which can move independent of the main frame.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Bellows Falls, Vermont
Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States.
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Bituminous coal
Bituminous coal or black coal is a relatively soft coal containing a tarlike substance called bitumen or asphalt.
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Cheyenne, Wyoming
Cheyenne is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Laramie County.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Denver
Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.
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Diesel locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.
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Diesel–electric transmission
A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.
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Double heading
In railroad terminology, double heading indicates the use of two locomotives at the front of a train, each operated individually by its own crew.
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Firebox (steam engine)
In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler.
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Forney Transportation Museum
The Forney Transportation Museum is a transport museum located in Denver, Colorado.
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Frisco, Texas
Frisco is a city in Collin and Denton counties in Texas.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, at the head of Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River.
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Green River, Wyoming
Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state.
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Kenefick Park
Kenefick Park is located at 100 Bancroft Street in South Omaha, Nebraska.
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Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie is a city and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States.
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Mallet locomotive
The Mallet locomotive is a type of articulated steam railway locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919).
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Museum of the American Railroad
The Museum of the American Railroad, formerly known as the Age of Steam Railroad Museum, is a railroad museum in Frisco, Texas.
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Museum of Transportation
The National Museum of Transportation (NMOT) is a private, 42-acre transportation museum in Kirkwood, Missouri, outside St.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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National Railroad Museum
The National Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, in suburban Green Bay.
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Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.
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Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.
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Overland Trail
The Overland Trail (also known as the Overland Stage Line) was a stagecoach and wagon trail in the American West during the 19th century.
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RailGiants Train Museum
The RailGiants Train Museum is a historic railroad museum at Fairplex, Pomona, California, hosted by the Southern California Chapter of the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society.
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Scranton, Pennsylvania
Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Steamtown National Historic Site
Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W).
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Steamtown, U.S.A.
Steamtown, U.S.A., was a steam locomotive museum that ran steam excursions out of North Walpole, New Hampshire, and Bellows Falls, Vermont, from the 1960s to 1983.
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Union Pacific 4006
Union Pacific 4006, one of the largest steam locomotives ever built, is a 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotive that was built in 1941 and retired in 1961 and is one of eight surviving Big Boys.
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Union Pacific 4012
Union Pacific 4012 is one of the world's largest steam locomotives and is one of eight preserved Union Pacific Big Boy locomotives.
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Union Pacific 4014
Union Pacific 4014, or UP 4014, is a Big Boy-type (four-cylinder articulated 4-8-8-4) steam locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad.
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Union Pacific 844
Union Pacific 844 is a 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company in December 1944 for the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Union Pacific Challenger
The Union Pacific Challengers were a type of simple articulated 4-6-6-4 steam locomotive built by American Locomotive Company for the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Union Pacific FEF Series
The FEF was a series of three steam locomotive types owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Union Pacific GTELs
Union Pacific operated the largest fleet of gas turbine-electric locomotives (GTELs) of any railroad in the world.
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Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.
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Wasatch Range
The Wasatch Range is a mountain range that stretches approximately from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States.
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Wheel arrangement
In rail transport, a wheel arrangement or wheel configuration is a system of classifying the way in which wheels are distributed under a locomotive.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.
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Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.
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2-8-8-0
In the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 2-8-8-0 is a locomotive with a two-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and no trailing truck.
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4-6-6-4
In Whyte notation, a 4-6-6-4 is a railroad steam locomotive that has four leading wheels followed by six coupled driving wheels, a second set of six driving wheels and four trailing wheels.
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4-8-8-4
A 4-8-8-4 in the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, is a locomotive with a four-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck.
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Big Boy (locomotive), Big Boy 4-8-8-4, UP 4012, UP Big Boy, Union Pacific 4017.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
