Each locomotive cost around $265,000 back then, which equates to almost $5,500,000 in today’s money. But Union Pacific got its money’s worth, because the Big Boy series continued to operate regularly ...

A dinosaur rolled into Kansas City Tuesday night. It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the ...

Union Pacific’s No. 4014 steam locomotive is a massive 132-foot long engine that has been touring the rails of middle America ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Colorado. Union Pacific will bring Big Boy No. 4014 through Colorado from Monday, Oct. 21, to Wednesday, Oct. 23, on its ...

Engineers operate the Union Pacific’s Big Boy as it rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. The 1.2 million-pound locomotive first put into operation in 1941 is one of 25 ever built ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will depart from Denver Union Station back to the locomotive's home base in Cheyenne, ending the locomotive's "Heartland of America Tour." Big Boy No. 4014 will ...

Engineers wave to onlookers as Union Pacific’s historic “Big Boy” steam locomotive passes through Lawrence Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. The “Big Boy” steam locomotive didn’t stop in ...

IN TEXAS ABOARD UNION PACIFIC’S BIG BOY TRAIN — Jim ... that the day’s portion of UP’s Big Boy steam locomotive tour begins in West, Texas. (The name of the town causes some confusion ...

locomotive, said Mike Jaixen, spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad. “There’s a legend of the Big Boy,” he said. The way Jaixen explains the draw of the Big Boy begins in 1941 when the first ...

The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 set out on a Heartland of America Tour ... In 1961, the largest steam engine was donated to the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society for its museum in ...