The 133-foot-long locomotive is the only Big Boy to still travel the tracks.
In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came with significant downsides.
M Mott grant to rebuild Crossroads Village steam locomotive. 1903 Baldwin K-27 2-8-2 built for the Denver & Rio Grande narrow gauge.
DENVER (KDVR) — The world’s largest operating 1.2 million-pound steam locomotive is coming back to Colorado. The locomotive, known as Big Boy No. 4014, is 1.2 million pounds and 132 feet long, about ...
SABINE COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - A Deep East Texas group is on a mission to preserve and relocate a nearly 100-year-old specialized train car. “It’s really important to see how we got where we are,” said ...
In the opinion of Lima’s Times-Democrat the scale of the industrial complex springing up along South Main Street in the early ...
Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...
According to Danville Utilities, water service has been restored to all customers served by Danville Utilities. 27-year-old charged in connection to shooting in Lynchburg, LPD says The Lynchburg ...
The Milwaukee County Zoo sold its steam engines to a preservation society in the Wisconsin Dells. If you want to visit the Riverside and Greater Northern Railroad, it is open every day in the summer ...
Marlin Uhirch has been preserving the legacy and work of Uhrich Locomotives. In Strasburg, Uhrich Locomotive Works has been around since 1948. Functioning originally as a steam locomotive shop, ...