At the end of the Big Boy production ALCO recognized that they had a big stock of parts in the warehouse that couldn't be used anymore.

In fact, a lot of spare parts, a lot of scrap.

A deputy accountant in the consumer products management office, used to saving on everything, starting with toilet paper, set himself up at the drawing board and without a drafting table or ink pens, with the usual pencil he kept behind his ear, he put together the design of the "Smallest big locomotive in the world". In fact, it had the average weight per axle of its bigger sister and this allowed it to pull loads that other mountains could only dream of. About 270 units were built and Shamel Fischer was promoted from deputy accountant to deputy chief accountant with a salary increase of 73 cents per hour with which he smashed the noses of his colleagues to such an extent that he was fired for mobbing. Later he continued to deal with accounting and cost reduction. It seems that late in life he participated in the design of the Russian space station Mir, with the results that we all know ... The Tiny Boy (as the usual joker in charge of maintenance forced himself to graffiti with a laser pen on the prototype boiler) remained in service until 1957 when they were scrapped and transferred to S. Fischer & Co. Ironworks, Loans and Scraps in Brooklyn New York for demolition. Even today those who pass in front of the company's old headquarters (the company, with a different name but the same mission, is now based in Redmond, Wa) may notice a sign "We demolished the Tiny..." that has given rise to considerable misinterpretation.



Union Pacific Tiny Boy
Union Pacific Tiny Boy
Country	USA
Year	1943
Class	Superheated steam 2 cylinder single esp.	4-8-2


At the end of the Big Boy production ALCO recognized that they had a big stock of parts in the warehouse that couldn't be used anymore. In fact, a lot of spare parts, a lot of scrap. A deputy accountant in the consumer products management office, used to saving on everything, starting with toilet paper, set himself up at the drawing board and without a drafting table or ink pens, with the usual pencil he kept behind his ear, he put together the design of the "Smallest big locomotive in the world". In fact, it had the average weight per axle of its bigger sister and this allowed it to pull loads that other mountains could only dream of. About 270 units were built and Shamel Fischer was promoted from deputy accountant to deputy chief accountant with a salary increase of 73 cents per hour with which he smashed the noses of his colleagues to such an extent that he was fired for mobbing. Later he continued to deal with accounting and cost reduction. It seems that late in life he participated in the design of the Russian space station Mir, with the results that we all know ... The Tiny Boy (as the usual joker in charge of maintenance forced himself to graffiti with a laser pen on the prototype boiler) remained in service until 1957 when they were scrapped and transferred to S. Fischer & Co. Ironworks, Loans and Scraps in Brooklyn New York for demolition. Even today those who pass in front of the company's old headquarters (the company, with a different name but the same mission, is now based in Redmond, Wa) may notice a sign "We demolished the Tiny..." that has given rise to considerable misinterpretation.