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).
How many railroads built there own steam locomotives? How many railroads built there own steam locomotives? I know several of the large railroads had their own steam locomotive erecting shops- Reading, N & W, and the PRR, but how many railroads built their own steam locomotives in their own shops?