LARGEST -- Union Pacific Super Turbine Locomotive #26
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7ofclubs
N 41° 13.203 W 111° 58.789
12T E 417870 N 4563647
Here you will not only see the world's most powerful locomotive but its also among the world's largest. When you look up at it, you realize, it is big.
Waymark Code: WMB453
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2011
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The plague reads, in part:
Union Pacific Super Turbine Locomotive #26
The World's Most Powerful Locomotive
Locomotive #26 is among the largest locomotives ever built. It's strong enought to pull 735 fully loaded freight cars. That's a train seven miles long!
Locomotive #26 uses a turbine engine, like a jet airplane. The turbine engine powers electric generators that turn the wheels. Locomotives like this are called "BIG BLOWS" because they make a deafening noise like a jet airplane flying by.
Locomotive #26 traveled over 1 million miles hauling heavy freight between Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Ogden, Utah. It is one of two surviving "BIG BLOWS' on public display. The other one is at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois.
Type of documentation of superlative status: Plaque stating it is the among the largest, AND most powerful.
Location of coordinates: Ogden, Utah's Union Station
Web Site: Not listed
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