Big Boy No. 4014 fired up for the first time; May 12 excursion announced
Big Boy No. 4014, shown at Pomona, Calif., in November 2013, is hot once more. CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific said Wednesday steam shop crews lit a fire in Big…
Big Boy coming through! Locomotive of the Union Pacific Railroad to be restored to its former glory
In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the…