See Big Boy's Westward Bound Tour schedule here. Union Pacific announced on June 17 that its legendary steam locomotive will ...

a locomotive delivered by Union Pacific Railroad in December of 1941, still holds distinction in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most powerful steam engine in operation today with an ...

There are steam locomotives, and then there’s “Big Boy.” At 604 tons and 132 feet long and with a 4-8-8-4-wheel arrangement, it is the largest, most powerful steam locomotive in the world.

The railroad is now owned by Union Pacific. The roundhouse was flattened ... into the everyday jobs that had to be done to keep a steam engine running. On a society page that was filled with ...

It’s interesting then to hear of a brand new steam locomotive prototype being considered ... with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics.

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam ... the engines No. 119 and Jupiter practically touching noses, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific ...