No. 4014 was one of only 25 American Locomotive Company 4000 Class locomotives, all nicknamed Big Boy for their massive size and power, built in the early 1940s to deliver goods to aid the country ...

Early perceiving the great expenses which were incurred, and which would keep increasing, by the use of wood for locomotive fuel ... Illinois Central Railroad Company have now twentyone of ...

In the European and American locomotives and railroads, there is still much to be improved and perfected ; we might leax'n from one another with advantage, and those points offault of which ...