Hundreds of Kansans greet the world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, on Oct. 17, 2024, in North Topeka. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The train named Big Boy was late.

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 delight ...

Oct. 19—On any other day, it would be strange to see people lining a quarter-mile of railroad track in the early afternoon. But Monday was Train Day in Claremore, and thousands flocked downtown to ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — The world's largest operating steam locomotive made stops in Muskogee and Claremore on Oct. 14. Union Pacific's Big Boy #4014 is on an eight-week, 10-state tour celebrating ...

Big Boy, all 1.2 million pounds of it, came rolling into Houston Friday afternoon. The four-cylinder steam engine was built in 1941, and is the last of 25 similar models still in existence. Union ...

The Union Pacific Locomotive, known as the 'Big Boy,' is passing through Oklahoma Monday as part of its Heartland of America Tour. Big Boy is the biggest steam locomotive in the world, measuring 132 ...

Ed Dickens checks in with his team, and after making sure everything is in order, he leans back in his chair, glances out the window, and takes in the brisk September afternoon air - and the crowd of ...

Amid the solitude that envelopes the open lands of Southern Colorado, Stathi Pappas breaks the peace as he shovels coals into a steam train engine built in the 1880s. His hands and boots are black, ...