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Trains have a special history and place at the heart of Purdue. The Boilermaker Special has been Purdue’s official mascot since the 1930s to represent the school’s engineering heritage. Every year, ...

Purdue is, pardon the pun, a freight train, and Indiana happened to be the team in the way. Mackey Arena got all day to tune up and it didn’t disappoint, and the result was roughly as expected.

It was Halloween morning Oct. 31, 1903, and in the first train car behind the engine was the Purdue football team, filled with 60 raucous players ready to trounce their state rivals.

Purdue University’s mascot train The Boilermaker Special involved in fatal highway crash that killed 1, injured 2 By . Chris Harris. Published April 26, 2025, 2:57 p.m. ET.

Sometimes you just wake up and know it's not going to be your day. Saturday was that kind of morning for Purdue. The 5-3 Boilermakers took the field for a key home contest against a struggling ...

The Purdue Boilermakers' train mascot was involved in a crash on Thursday that killed one person and sent two others to the hospital. According to WLFI in Lafayette, Indiana, the Boilermaker ...

The official mascot of Purdue University, The Boilermaker Special VII, was involved in a crash on US-52 at Wyandoette Road around 4 p.m. Thursday, according to WTHR. Deputies said the train was ...

It was Halloween morning Oct. 31, 1903, and in the first train car behind the engine was the Purdue football team, filled with 60 raucous players ready to trounce their state rivals.

The Purdue Boilermakers' train mascot was involved in a crash on Thursday that killed one person and sent two others to the hospital. According to WLFI in Lafayette, Indiana, the Boilermaker ...