Railroads & Locomotives Locomotives Giant turbine and diesel locomotives followed Union Pacific’s famous Big Boys

Giant turbine and diesel locomotives followed Union Pacific’s famous Big Boys

By Robert S McGonigal | September 3, 2021

Rob McGonigal details the heavy locomotives that succeeded Big Boy on the Union Pacific

Overhead black-and-white photo of Union Pacific single-unit gas-turbine electric locomotive.

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