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Henry Ford museum question

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gtractorfan

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I wonder how the Allegheny steam locomotive was hauled in. According to my book those engines weighed 1,076,000 pounds! (that probably includes the tender) Was a track temporarily laid to get it in there? Those engines have a claim of being the most powerful steam engines ever built, potentially 7,500 h.p. even surpassing Big Boys.
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I went to the Henry Ford last month , yes the Locomotive is sitting on tracks in side
a beautiful piece of engineering, it is so big .
Every one needs to try and go to the Henry Ford
and Green Field Village is right next door .
You need 2 days to take it all in.
 
The tracks are still there! There are actually several tracks in the museum, and they can bring cars and locomotives in and out.
 
I saw a documentary on moving large things, and they moved a very large locomotive engine up on a bluff in Omaha. It was moved by heavy duty truck. They used either one or 2 large dozers to pull/push the engine and truck up the hill. The engine was a Union Pacific Big Boy. 1,250,000# engine and tender.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Pacific_Big_Boy
 
A piece of useless trivia, I read a thread on a R.R. forum years ago that said the Alleghney ran to the museum under its own power, the fire dropped, the engine was cleaned up and pushed into the museum. Most displayed steam engines were pulled off of a scrap line, 'spruced up' by the roundhouse crew and shoved into a display site by a diesel switcher. At one time, it was said all this one needed to run again was water, coal and a match. (of course the FRA would NEVER allow that ).
 
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