Big Boy is one of the largest, heaviest, and most powerful series of steam locomotives ever built, regarded as an icon of the American railroad era. The Big Boy locomotives were produced by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, for the Union Pacific Railroad. The massive machines were designed primarily to handle heavy freight traffic in the steep Wasatch Mountains in Utah.
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