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Artemis II launch tower view

My emotions about space travel, and the history of, are strong today.

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Danyil Zuchko

Union pacific X4014 was one of 25 locomotives in the 4000 class, also known as big boys, they weighed 1.2 million pounds (600 tons) and had the wheel arrangement of 4-8-8-4. X4014 was built in 1941, and delivered in December of the same year, by American Locomotive Company (ALCO), it is one of eight Big Boy locomotives left in existence and the only operational Big Boy, with the other seven preserved on static display at museums across the country. The locomotive operated in revenue service until July 21, 1959. It was donated to the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society in late 1961 and thereafter displayed in Fairplex in Pomona, California. No. 4014 had traveled 1,031,205 miles (1,659,564 km) during its twenty years of revenue service. Union Pacific retired No. 4014 on December 7, 1961. All of the Big Boys were retired by 1962, their duties assumed by diesel locomotives and gas turbine-electric locomotives (GTELs). In 2013, Union Pacific re-acquired the locomotive and launched a restoration at their Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On May 1, 2019, No. 4014 ran under its own power for the first time in sixty years, becoming the largest operational steam locomotive in the world. It now operates in excursion service.

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