30-1920-1 UNION PACIFIC BIG BOY #4014 RESTORED W/ OIL TENDER-OJust months before Pearl Harbor, the American Locomotive Company delivered the first Big Boy to the Union Pacific Railroad. The UP's Department of Research and Mechanical Standards had designed the locomotive for a specific task: to pull a 3600 ton train unassisted over the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. While the Big Boy is often cited as the biggest steam locomotive ever built, in fact it is not. The Norfolk & Western's Y6 and A, the Duluth Missabe &

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using the front wheels as rudders

Sonny's Super Service - N Scale PF5203 Model the bustle of your layout's local service station

fast and flat surfaces

The Walthers Cornerstone Parkview Terrace Background Building provides a smooth

• Directional LED lighting

Flowers by Terry is part of the selection of Walthers Cornerstone brick storefront building kits patterned after those you'll find in towns across the continent

When plate steel became cheap enough to use as a building material in the 1920s

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with a flat pilot face – late phase • Optional separate electrical equipment box will be included on the left side walkway behind the cab per the prototype • AAR-B or Blomberg trucks will be used when appropriate • Separately-applied detail parts including: windshield wipers

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die cast frame and floor for optimum weight