Union Pacific plans to send Big Boy No. 4014 on a transcontinental trip next year as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary ...

America’s railroads once connected towns, industries, and dreams from coast to coast - and their legacy still rumbles through ...

BELLE PLAINE, Iowa (KCRG) - Big Boy is coming to town. For those not in the know, that’s the world’s largest steam train. Big Boy Number No. 4014 was delivered to Union Pacific in 1941. It was retired ...

The CEO of Union Pacific told Trains.com late last week that the company plans to send the engine on a transcontinental trip.

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) -The legendary Big Boy Steam Locomotive, one of the largest and most powerful steam engines ever built, is rolling down the train tracks this fall as part of its highly-anticipated ...

Alex Bertram (left) and Tim Stockdale (right) with the train. Courtesy | Scot Bertram ...

A PAYING ADULT. GET IN FREE. WELL, YOU CAN SEE A PIECE OF RAILROAD HISTORY UP CLOSE IN ROSEVILLE THIS MORNING. UNION PACIFIC’S BIG BOY, THE LARGEST OPERATING STEAM LOCOMOTIVE IN THE WORLD, ARRIVED IN ...

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

For more than 70 years, WARE has been passionate about steam. Part of that passion involves knowing the history of our industry, and having an appreciation for the milestone pieces of equipment that ...

A group of historical amusement park steam engines continue to work building up steam and doing what they were designed to do ...