The nickname quickly gained approval from students. Boilermaker Special The locomotive design of Purdue’s official mascot celebrates the university’s renowned engineering programs. The Boilermaker ...

University Hall (known as the Main Building ... The Boilermaker Special (the official Purdue mascot in the form of a locomotive mounted on an automobile chassis) is presented to the student body at a ...

“Our mascot is the Boilermaker Special and railroads are massive in Purdue’s history,” Woods says. “We are intertwined with the history of the university itself. Trains are a part of our history that ...