Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena says he wants the world’s heaviest operational steam locomotive — Big Boy 4014 — to make its first ...

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

OGLE COUNTY, Ill. — For Stateline train enthusiasts, a piece of history rolls through the region next year. The Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway company announces locomotive 2816 soon departs ...

The operator of the old-timey amusement ride says she will "pick up everything and leave" if she cannot secure a long-term ...

It's big, it's famous, and it's back from the dead. The appropriately named steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, will make its second journey through Arkansas this week. While Union Pacific toured its ...

I have to admit, I personally am not all that into trains. I mean, I like them, I understand their usefulness and how they've contributed to the creation of the modern-day society, and I have traveled ...

Two Victorian steam locomotives have been given a permanent home at a heritage railway in the north-east of England. Twizell, ...

THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...

The Pacific Locomotive Association and the Niles Canyon Railway held a special run on Saturday, May 1, with the 2-4-4-2 Columbia River Belt Line #7 steam locomotive, known as the “Skookum.” Some 40 ...