We were not fighters like them; we were cunning and cowardly, and it was because of our cunning and cowardice, and our inordinate capacity for fear, that we survived in that frightfully hostile environment of the Younger World.
Union Pacific's 4-6-6-4 Challenger steam locomotive #3985 is the largest operating locomotive in the world. Built in July 1943 and still used by UP for occasional excursion throughout the western United States, the 3985 weighs 1,073,900 pounds (537 tons).
the big boy locomotives are 132 ft 91 4 in 40 47 m long the size of locomotives in the big boy class put the driver weight at 540000 lbs 244 9 tons combining the tender and locomotive the weight will be 1208750 lbs 548 3 tons the fuel was coal and the capacity is 28 short tons 25 4 t the big boy s water capacity is 25000 us gallons