“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crossing in Greeley Big Boy No. 4014 will also be at Union Station in Denver on Tuesday, Oct. 22, for a private railroad employee event. There will be no public access, but the locomotive will ...

A RARE SIGHTING OF THE BIG BOY LOCOMOTIVE TRAIN ROLLED THROUGH KANSAS ... MAKE SURE WE HAVE ENOUGH WATER. WE SPOKE WITH A MAN FROM OSAWATOMIE. HE USED TO WATCH THE BIG BOY WITH HIS WIFE.

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 ...

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.

Just before 1 p.m., the teeth-chattering whistle of Big Boy No. 4014 announced its arrival. The 83-year-old steam locomotive stopped briefly Thursday afternoon spewing steam in Topeka on its way from ...

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 ...

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.

Oct. 15—Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive towered over hundreds of people who came to see it stop in Muskogee on Monday morning. But the crowds didn't keep the little ones from marveling at its size ...