Union Pacific faced the immense challenge of hauling heavy freight trains across rugged mountain terrain, requiring locomotives with exceptional power and reliability. Unlike other railroads that ...

The restoration of Union Pacific’s steam locomotive No. 844 is complete and this historic engine will be in North Platte about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.

Union Pacific has always been on the cutting edge of locomotive technology. In the 1950s, it became the only railroad ever to place a fleet of gas turbine-electric locomotives into regular ...

Union Pacific’s iconic steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 is coming to Tucson. ... There were originally 25 Big Boys built for Union Pacific, but only eight still exist.

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 to steam into Illinois next week. ... The beloved locomotive is one of 25 built in the 1940s to handle the steep grades in Utah's Wasatch Mountain Range during ...

The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 - rolled into and through Dallas in September and is back in Fort Worth in October.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014, normally housed in Wyoming, is making a five-state Westward Bound tour this year. The 132-foot-long vehicle weighs 1.2 million pounds.

Big Boy No. 4014 is a 132-foot-long, 1.2-million-pound locomotive with a water capacity of 25,000 gallons. It was in service for Union Pacific from 1941 to 1961, traveling more than a million miles!