TOPEKA (KSNT) – Union Pacific is dropping new hints this week of a coast-to-coast journey for its historic locomotive nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ following its successful Heartland of America Tour in 2024.

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with an additional date for the Ogden, Utah, stop initially omitted by Union Pacific. (NEXSTAR) – The wait is over, sort of. Union Pacific has announced the ...

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 and the ...

BELLE PLAINE, Iowa (KCRG) - Big Boy is coming to town. For those not in the know, that’s the world’s largest steam train. Big Boy Number No. 4014 was delivered to Union Pacific in 1941. It was retired ...

(NEXSTAR) – There will be countless celebrations this year in honor of America’s semiquincentennial (aka, its 250th anniversary), but none may be as massive as a 1.2 million-pound locomotive rolling ...

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is being readied for a spectacle that will stretch from ocean to ocean in 2026, turning a piece of mid‑century railroading into a rolling national event.

Above: Previous coverage of ‘Big Boy’ locomotive’s first coast-to-coast tour (NEXSTAR) – There will be countless celebrations this year in honor of America’s semiquincentennial (aka, its 250th ...