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).
What was the world's first passenger railroad to use a steam locomotive? The world's first steam-powered passenger railroad was the Stockton & Darlington Railway, operating 25 miles of track through Darlington in the North East of England.he first American railroad to operate with a steam locomotive was the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company which built a railroad between coal fields at Carbondale and its canal at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. In 1828, the D&H ordered a steam locomotive from Britain's Foster, Rastrick & Company.