CHEYENNE, Wyo. >> In its prime, a massive steam locomotive built in Schenectady, N.Y., known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy ...

Longtime Louisville & Nashville Railroad employee Charles Castner died last month at the age of 97. He co-wrote a book in ...

It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

DENVER (KDVR) — One of the world’s largest locomotives passed through Colorado in October, operating much like it did when it was first built in the mid-1900s. The train, known as Big Boy No. 4014, ...

One of the world’s biggest and most powerful steam locomotives is chugging to its big debut after five years of restoration work. Big Boy No. 4014 rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in ...

The historic steam locomotive Pere Marquette 1225, which was pulled from service two weeks ago, has been repaired and will lead the North Pole Express this weekend, the Steam Railroading Institute ...

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