The decades-long effort to advance the design and technology of steam locomotives constantly circled back to the idea of ...

Big Boy No. 4014 just may be chugging through a city near you, as Union Pacific announced the legendary locomotive's upcoming ...

Just days after we wrote about the problem of trying to introduce cleaner locomotives into existing railway's fleets, Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the first of 60 new environmentally ...

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 ...

Union Pacific Heavy Challenger Steam Loco The last decades of the steam era in America produced many of the largest, best, and most extraordinary locomotives ever to grace steel rails – and ...

People in the Quad Cities region got to see the Big Boy locomotive on its tour through nine states in September, but its ...

Union Pacifics steam locomotive 3985 is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world This 4664 locomotive built in 1943 still runs today as part of the railroads public relations program In ...