'Big Boy' No. 4012 (Scranton, Pennsylvania) | interesting place, steam locomotive, locomotive on display

USA / Pennsylvania / Scranton / Scranton, Pennsylvania
 interesting place, steam locomotive, locomotive on display
One of the largest locomotives in the world.
Big Boy was the name given to the Union Pacific Railroad's twenty-five 4000 class 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives built between 1941 and 1944 by Alco.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
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Coordinates:   41°24'30"N   75°40'17"W
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