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

For the first time ever, both coasts could receive a visit from the world's largest operating steam locomotive.

Cheyenne-based Big Boy 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will make its first ever coast-to-coast tour ...

Union Pacific has released new details on the schedule for its first-ever coast-to-coast tour of its 'Big Boy' historic ...

Union Pacific will celebrate the 250th year of American independence with its first-ever coast-to-coast steam tour led by the Big Boy locomotive.

The US is preparing another historic coast-to-coast journey for Big Boy 4014, the world’s ...

The Santa Fe 2926 rolled down the tracks under its own steam power after an ambitious 20-year volunteer-run restoration. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for ...

Union Pacific has announced the first leg of the tour of its legendary Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive will begin by leaving ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway enthusiast than the sight of a steam locomotive. The original main-line rail propulsion technology still clings on in a few places, but ...

The steam era of railroading in the United States is among the most storied, transformative legacies in the long saga of American industrialization. Chugging, hissing locomotives that spewed plumes of ...

BALDWIN CITY — Steam power will reign again over the Labor Day weekend at the Midland Railway’s Railfest 2013. “A 1930-built, coal-fired steam locomotive, ‘Hank No. 75,’ will power excursion trains ...

It may not be a bullet train, but a steam locomotive made history this week as it became the first steam-driven train clocking 100 mph (161 km/h) on a British mainline track in over 50 years. On ...