UP 4014 - Big Boy at Rawlins, WY
Big Boy 4018 has arrived in Rawlins Yard with UP Train PCYRW1 04. UP originally planned to call these locomotives the Wasatch type, for the mountains they were built to traverse. Scrawled on the smokebox is the nickname they were affectionately given before the first one was completed, by an ALCO worker at the factory in Schenectady, NY in 1941. Part of the graffiti included a "V" for victory, foreshadowing the United States' imminent entry into World War II; a war these 25 engines helped win.
Locomotive: UP 4014
5-4-19
Rawlins, WY
UP 4014 - Big Boy at Rawlins, WY
Big Boy 4018 has arrived in Rawlins Yard with UP Train PCYRW1 04. UP originally planned to call these locomotives the Wasatch type, for the mountains they were built to traverse. Scrawled on the smokebox is the nickname they were affectionately given before the first one was completed, by an ALCO worker at the factory in Schenectady, NY in 1941. Part of the graffiti included a "V" for victory, foreshadowing the United States' imminent entry into World War II; a war these 25 engines helped win.
Locomotive: UP 4014
5-4-19
Rawlins, WY