“In the 1940s and 1950s, steam locomotives would stop periodically at watering towers to refill their water tender, but those were all decommissioned 60 years ago. Now, the Big Boy has to bring ...

Big Boy No. 4014 is a 132-foot-long, 1.2-million-pound locomotive with a water capacity of 25,000 gallons. It was in service for Union Pacific from 1941 to 1961, traveling more than a million miles.

Engineers wave to onlookers as Union Pacific’s historic “Big Boy” steam locomotive passes through ... It carries 25,000 gallons of water to make it steam, and back in the day carried 56,000 ...

Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive is expected to chug into Muskogee around 11 a.m. Monday. City officials hope we’ll all go out and greet him when he comes. The city is ...

Engineers operate the Union Pacific’s Big Boy as it rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. The 1.2 million-pound locomotive first put into operation in 1941 is one of 25 ever built ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will depart from Denver Union Station back to the locomotive's home base in Cheyenne, ending the locomotive's "Heartland of America Tour." Big Boy No. 4014 will ...

FORT WORTH – Union Pacific Railroad's famed Big Boy locomotive made a stop in North Texas Thursday morning. Big Boy No. 4014's Heartland of America Tour included a stop at Fort Worth's T&P ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fox 43 AM Live’s Matthew Johnstone sat down with Sean Zears with Shawnee County Parks and Recreation to talk about the arrival of Union Pacific’s ‘Big Boy’ locomotive Monday.