Purdue’s official mascot is a replica of a Victorian-era locomotive called the “Boilermaker Special,” which was created by a student in the 1930s to represent the “agrarian heritage” of ...

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, ...

The first Purdue mascot, the Boilermaker Special, was a locomotive mounted on an automobile chassis. The 1940 mascot didn’t ...