The Big Boy is back, baby! Following five years of restoration, Union Pacific’s (UP) “Big Boy” 4014 steam locomotive made a public appearance this past weekend—departing a UP shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., ...

Now it tours the UP system on occasion as a sort of rolling train museum and reminder that freight rail remains a major part of goods movement in the nation. Seven other Big Boys remain but are ...

One of the largest and perhaps most famous steam locomotives ever built—Union Pacific’s articulated 4-8-8-4 “Big Boy” No ... made public at a later date. UP donated 4014 to the historical society on ...

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The 1.2-million-pound Big Boy ... train will be on display 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon Friday in Bloomington, 50 miles east of Los Angeles. Visitors who want to see the train ...

The spectacle that thousands of onlookers, train lovers and plain ... “We came to see the ‘Big Boy.’ I have a model one of them at home, and we came up here to see the big one,” Peppie ...

making stops along the way to allow viewers an up-close look at the massive, 1.1-million-pound engine. According to the Union Pacific Railroad, the train known as Big Boy No. 4014 is the world’s ...

Such was the situation I found myself in Tuesday morning outside the Amtrak station near downtown Houston, where Union Pacific train No. 4014, also known as "Big Boy ... Leonard's get-up wasn ...