Read more: 11 Of The Oldest Locomotives Still In Service Today The Union Pacific Big Boy was originally constructed in 1941, with its creation led by then-president of Union Pacific Railroad ...

The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of “make it bigger.” Articulated engines took that notion and doubled it both ...

Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad ... with the engines No. 119 and Jupiter practically touching noses, the Central Pacific and Union Pacific ...

Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 7,175 locomotives (as of December 2023) over 32,200 mile routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

An investigation is underway after a Union Pacific train derailed in Carson on Monday afternoon. Firefighters were dispatched ...

NewsWest 9 has gained new insight into the investigation of the Dec. 18 Pecos train derailment that took the lives of two ...