{"product_id":"30-1920-1-union-pacific-big-boy-4014-restored-w-oil-tender-o","title":"30-1920-1 UNION PACIFIC BIG BOY #4014 RESTORED W\/ OIL TENDER-O","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust 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 \u0026amp; Western's Y6 and A, the Duluth Missabe \u0026amp; Iron Range's Yellowstones, and the Chesapeake and Ohio's Alleghenys were all in the same league, and some exceeded the Big Boy's weight and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in the battle for hearts and minds, the Big Boy won. Perhaps it was the name, simple and direct, scrawled on a locomotive under construction by an ALCo shop worker. Maybe it was timing, as the Big Boys hit the road just when America needed symbols to rally around. Maybe the UP's publicity department just did a better job of telling the world what great equipment they had. Whatever the reason, the Big Boy captured the imagination of railfans and the American public over the ensuing years, perhaps more than any other steam engine. In many ways it is the symbolic locomotive of the American West, as big and powerful as the country it sped through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriter Henry Comstock beautifully described the Big Boy's place at the apex of steam engine history: \"A Union Pacific 'Big Boy' was 604 tons and 19,000 cubic feet of steel and coal and water, poised upon 36 wheels spaced no wider apart than those of an automobile. That it could thunder safely over undulating and curved track at speeds in excess of 70 miles an hour was due in large measure to the efforts of two long-forgotten pioneers. As early as 1836, the basic system that held its wheels in equalized contact with the rails was patented by a Philadelphian named Joseph Harrison; and a French technical writer, Anatole Mallet, first thought to couple two driving units heel to toe below one boiler in 1874.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis enduring symbol of American railroading returns to the RailKing line for 2026, complete with the industry-leading speed control, smoke output, and range of accurate sounds that characterize all MTH Proto-Sound 3.0 locomotives. Both engine and tender are constructed of die-cast metal and adorned with detail. Our model features two motors and four traction tires for pulling power and speed that rival the original Big Boy. Imperial features that set this model apart include legible builders plates, crew figures, cab interior light and painted back head gauges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe RailKing 2026 edition of No. 4014 Excursion will feature \u003cstrong\u003eALL-NEW\u003c\/strong\u003e tender and locomotive details to accurately reflect the U.P.'s real-life 4014. Though not pictured in these images, the details will include the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePTC Detail On The Side, Front And Roof Of The Tender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdditional Pipe Detail On The Tender\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrototypical Changes To The Water Hatch Detail\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eU.P. 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