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Title: Locomotive 8444
Publication Information: Seville Enterprises, Inc
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: Locomotive 8444, largest operating steam locomotive left on any U.S. railroad. Measuring 114 feet from tip of pilot to rear of tender. Union Pacific's giant built in 1944, weighs 450 tons and runs on 80-inch drive wheels.
Type: image
Format: 15.1 cm. x 10.0 cm.
Identifier: EXP974.25pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/17847
Subject: Expo '74
Place: Spokane, Washington
Source: Donald L. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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