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The "Allegheny" 2-6-6-6 Locomotive

The Allegheny was the most powerful steam engine ever built. It had a 25,000 gallon water tank and a 25 ton coal bunker. It's firebox was the largest of any steam engine.





Sixty Alleghenys were built from 1941 to 1948.





This Allegheny is at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn Michigan.





Inside the cab of th Allegheny at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore Maryland.





You can almost see the firebox in this photo. Unfortunately, our best photos are actually video.

Research Night

On May 16th, Wednesday, the year 2007, our intrepid Train Enthusiast participated in Research Night at his school. His project was on the A4 Pacific Mallard Steam Locomotive. The Mallard is the fastest steam engine ever built. It set a world record in 1938, when it went 126 mph.



The plaque on the side of the Mallard, stating the details of it's record run.













Brown and Purple took some time out to do some Monkey Yoga. Harder than it looks.

Union Pacific Big Boy

This photo was taken by Otto Perry in 1941.

My favorite steam engine is the Union Pacific Big Boy. They were built between 1941 and 1944. Only twenty-five were built.
They were the largest and fastest steam engines ever made.




This is golden model of the Union Pacific Big Boy.



Union Pacific Big Boy 4004 in Wyoming. Photograph taken by Stan Kistler in 1958.






This is what the inside of the cab and the opening of the firebox in a Big Boy looks like.


My favorite train.

Birthday

The Maine Narrow Gage Railroad put my birthday up on their website!

Birthday at the Narrow Gage Railway

Birthday Express

If you didn't see this at G3T Films, here it is! Monkey is an engine driver.