The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S.

13 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by ghtbircshotbe
(npr.org)

5 Comments

nickhalfasleep

12 hours ago

Not quite the biggest steam locomotive, the DM&IR Yellowstone class outranked them in many measures.

https://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=USA&whe...

ggm

12 hours ago

Article has "operating" headline here doesn't. Those that are left are (apparently) all on static display.

Articulated steam locos: I was delighted to finally see Bayer Garrets in Delhi, and coastal NSW loco caches. I'd mentally assumed to be an articulated steam engines, it would be enormous: these are actually surprisingly small.

(Made in England, mostly for export)

ghtbircshotbe

2 hours ago

Sorry, just copy pasted the headline they gave me at the time.

One interesting thing I noticed about the big boy locomotive is that the whistle is much lower pitched and more pleasant sounding than typical operating locomotives today

dzhiurgis

an hour ago

I took a steam train yesterday. They should be called coal train, because it was beyond disgusting. If you like fresh air - highly recommend to avoid such experience.