page_title: Boilermaker Special
section_title: Boilermaker Special II
hierarchical_section_title: Boilermaker Special / Boilermaker Special II
caption_attribution_description: English: Boilermaker Special II and trailer
context_page_description: The Boilermaker Special is the official mascot of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. It resembles a Victorian-era railroad locomotive and is built on a truck chassis. It is operated and maintained by the student members of the Purdue Reamer Club. It is often incorrectly assumed that Purdue Pete is the official mascot of the university.
context_section_description: In 1953, the Boilermaker Special II was created by installing the original Baldwin body from the Boilermaker Special I on an International Harvester truck chassis.  This meant that the Boilermaker Special II was visually identical to the Boilermaker Special I.  A matching trailer was added during the 1950s to increase the passenger seating capacity.  The trailer remained in use until the early 1990s.
  After the Boilermaker Special III was introduced, the Boilermaker Special II was scrapped in a Lafayette IN salvage yard.  This was personally witnessed by Reamer Club member Roger Brunstrum so that no one could later claim they owned the mascot.
caption: The Boilermaker Special II (1953-1960)
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