With crowds at practically every major road crossing, the behemoth steam locomotive rumbled, roared, steamed and shrieked into Houston for the weekend. The locomotive, the only operating of its ...

Big Boy is coming to North Texas. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 - will rolled into and through Dallas back on Sept. 18 and is back in Fort Worth ...

Amid the considerable amount of discussion which has been aroused by the recent report upon the American locomotives on the Midland Railroad, the best statement has come from the pen of Mr ...

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct. 6 through ...

SILVIS, Ill. — People in the Quad Cities region got to see the Big Boy locomotive on its tour through nine states in September, but its little sister has been in Silvis for the past two years ...

MESSRS. EDITORS—"What is the horse power of a locomotive under the following circumstances, namely, eylindersfifteen inches in diameter ; stroke, twenty inches ; driving wheels, five feet ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A 1.2-million-pound "Big Boy" locomotive returned Thursday to Fort Worth, delighting railfans who traveled from across the state to see the 83-year-old relic. The Union ...

Big Boy No. 4014 just may be chugging through a city near you, as Union Pacific announced the legendary locomotive's upcoming ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

A giant steam locomotive that once hauled crack expresses like The Golden Arrow and the Bournemouth Belle will take passengers from Telford and Shrewsbury on a trip over the spectacular Settle ...