No railroad was better equipped to shoulder the heavy burden of wartime traffic thanks to the three types of Union Pacific ...

As he approached his final days in recent weeks, Ross E. Rowland could look back secure in the knowledge that U.S. steam — ...

One of the largest steam locomotives ever made, sitting at over 1.2 million pounds, Union Pacific’s Train no. 4014 is on a “Great Race Across the Midwest" Published July 26, 2019 • Updated ...

Union Pacific 4014 was one of 25 4-8-8-4 steam locomotives, dubbed Big Boys, manufactured by the American Locomotive Company between 1941 and 1944.(The 4-8-8-4 designation refers to the ...

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.