The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.

A dinosaur rolled into Kansas City Tuesday night. It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the delight ...

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 ...

Oct. 19—On any other day, it would be strange to see people lining a quarter-mile of railroad track in the early afternoon. But Monday was Train Day in Claremore, and thousands flocked downtown to ...

Trains come and go from Houston every day, carrying the things that end up in stores and factories around the region. None of them get the attention or attract the crowds of Union Pacific’s Big Boy.

VILLA GROVE, Ill. (WAND) – Thousands of people across Illinois lined railroad tracks for minutes or hours waiting to catch a glimpse of Union Pacific 4014 commonly known as the Big Boy. This iron ...

Attention, Illinois train lovers: You've got one last chance to catch Union Pacific's iconic 4014 Big Boy steam engine before the locomotive chugs away. The classic train stopped in three Illinois ...

BIG SANDY — The name Big Sandy is an oxymoron. It’s a tiny town. But thanks to a big steam engine, it’s a big spot on a big map. On Tuesday, the largest operating steam engine in the world — the Union ...

The Union Pacific locomotive known as “Big Boy” returns to Green Country for the first time since 2021 as part of its Heartland of America Tour, with stops in Muskogee at 11 a.m., Wagoner at noon for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — One of the world’s largest ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came ...