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Very often I read and hear stuff like: Big Boy could pull engless freight trains on steep grades, no other locomotive could pull that much etc. Not to mention that it is attributed a whole bunch of superlatives like: most powerfull, largest, which are questionable For example It had a starting tractive effort of 135,375 lbs, which is not really much compared to other big such locomotives of its time, and specailly to todays locomotives. So why all the hype? I love this locomotive, it's my favorite steamer, but I don't think it deserves all the credit. So am I missing something, what was so special about it?
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