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‘Big Boy’ Steam Locomotive Branded ‘Obscene’ by US Ultra-Feminist Group | Egg Shells

‘Big Boy’ Steam Locomotive Branded ‘Obscene’ by US Ultra-Feminist Group

Posted by in US News on Jun 26th, 2016 | Comments Off on ‘Big Boy’ Steam Locomotive Branded ‘Obscene’ by US Ultra-Feminist Group
UP's 4014 'Big Boy' was on display in California until returning to Cheyenne for restoration in 2014

UP’s 4014 ‘Big Boy’ was on display in California until returning to Cheyenne for restoration in 2014

A previously-unknown group – ‘Train Spotters Up In Arms’ – has staged a violent demo at the Cheyenne HQ of railroad operator Union Pacific.

The demonstrators exchanged gunfire with police for over three hours, demanding that the World’s largest steam engine (currently under restoration) be renamed.

‘It’s wrong in so many ways’ said TSUIA spokesperson Melinda J. ‘It’s sexist, sizeist, homophobic, phallo-centric and probably racist too’.

‘Actually’ she continued ‘the locomotive is painted black – so that just proves my point.  It was never an official name anyway: just something chalked on the side by a disgusting man’.

‘We want the engine renamed “Differently-Sized Person of Indeterminate Age, Gender, Sexuality and Race”.

UP was unavailable for comment – though a mechanic said ‘we affectionately refer to the locomotive as ‘she’ or ‘girl’ – despite her name.  But it’s going to be ‘he’ and ‘boy’ from now on.  Fuck ’em’.

 

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