Preservation
Several Mallets have been preserved, some even in operational condition. A number of the Union Pacific "Big Boys" have escaped the scrapper, including one overlooking the US city of Omaha, where UP is based. Stationed out of the Cheyenne, Wyoming yard, Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 No.3985 is currently the largest operating steam engine in the world. One of the early Dutch-built Indonesian Mallets has been returned to the Netherlands and is now exhibited in the Dutch Railway Museum, while another industrial type has been purchased and restored by the Statfold Barn Railway in the UK. This saw its first operation in Europe in 2011 and after initial trials on the owners' railway, was transferred to the Welsh Highland Railway as its power is better suited to that railway.
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