The travel market was booming that year, and in a fit of Roaring Twenties optimism, the mountain railroad managers bought a ...

Amid the considerable amount of discussion which has been aroused by the recent report upon the American locomotives on the Midland Railroad, the best statement has come from the pen of Mr.

15, 2024. The 1.2 million-pound locomotive first put into operation in 1941 is one of 25 ever built and the last one still running. Dominick Williams [email protected] A dinosaur rolled into ...

If you were to visit a railway almost anywhere in the world, you would find that unless it was in some way running heritage trains, the locomotives would bear a similarity to each other.

MESSRS. EDITORS—"What is the horse power of a locomotive under the following circumstances, namely, eylindersfifteen inches in diameter ; stroke, twenty inches ; driving wheels, five feet ...

There, I gave you the answer already – the Union Pacific 4014 ‘Big Boy’ locomotive – the biggest, most powerful steam engine still in service. And Jay Leno blows the whistle on it while ...

4014, aka the Big Boy, slowed to a stop. With crowds at practically every major road crossing, the behemoth steam locomotive rumbled, roared, steamed and shrieked into Houston for the weekend.

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct.

FORT WORTH, Texas — A 1.2-million-pound "Big Boy" locomotive returned Thursday to Fort Worth, delighting railfans who traveled from across the state to see the 83-year-old relic. The Union ...

SILVIS, Ill. — People in the Quad Cities region got to see the Big Boy locomotive on its tour through nine states in September, but its little sister has been in Silvis for the past two years ...

A giant steam locomotive that once hauled crack expresses like The Golden Arrow and the Bournemouth Belle will take passengers from Telford and Shrewsbury on a trip over the spectacular Settle ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--Steam and diesel locomotive operators are testing replacing environmentally unfriendly power sources for the trains to help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.