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Description:
The DPR Superstramer ( 3-4-4-4-4-4-3 ) or The Goliath Locomotive was Built in 1948 and took 10 years to complet how ever was never ran becuse of deails units that came out in the mide 50s and remaned in storge for 50 years never to see the sun the unit was keeped in working order and screatly keeped quite among the heads The unit was almost put on desplay 5 times but DPR denided any such unit exited so it sat for years untoched as time rolled on she sat forgotten entell one day DPR wore tareing down there old shops and to there suprise sat the Goliath in a oddly over sized engen house, 50 years forgotten DPR Fired her up for the frist time but due to her extream wight the rails cracked and split under stress unable to move it DPR has set the mass unit on desplay and built a musem around it The Goliath Locomotive was run ones and at very low speeds no more then 5mph of the ties would split and brack The unit dose not pull anything but its own tender form one end off the yard to the other end (1.4miles) on a line made souly for the Locomotive with no crives or swichs the track is strat and 5X thicker then any stander track to suport the units sheer wight and mass size of 224feet long and wighing in at 1.5million tons thosons come every year to see this clossol moster and if lucky a cab ride tickets to vist are not cheap. '