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Frisco TX gets a WORKING Big Boy donated by ex-Boeing CEO
Author: Graham Buxton
Date: 11-12-2017 - 05:31

OK, its not a full size Big Boy, this one weighs 5,000 lbs and was manufactured by Mammoth Locomotive Works of Palisade CO.
Quote:
Dallas Morning News
Frisco residents Phil and Geda Condit donated a mini custom-made steam locomotive to the Museum of the American Railroad, which recently put it on display.
A fundraising campaign will kick off soon to build mini tracks and buy three to six mini passenger cars. The plan is to run the locomotive in a loop around the nonprofit museum's rail yard to showcase its collection of full-size locomotives and passenger cars.

Think of the 16-foot-long, 5,000-pound locomotive as the baby brother to the museum's prized Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4018. That behemoth steam engine is 133 feet long and weighs 600 tons — 1.2 million pounds.

Read the rest here:
[www.dallasnews.com]

Phil Conduit is a former Boeing CEO.

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