Trains Top 10 stories for 2019, No. 1: Big Boy’s triumphant return
For Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy.…
Read moreFor Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy.…
Read moreDuluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone No. 227, left, and Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014. Two photos,…
Read moreRick Johnson; Trains staff “We’ve done a diesel and an electric; now we need to do a cutaway of a…
Read morePRR tail car Frank Thomson will bring up the markers on the special move to celebrate the 1949 Broadway Limited.…
Read moreUnion Pacific OMAHA, Neb. — The Big Boy No. 4014 is headed back out on the Union Pacific system beginning…
Read moreUP steam program manager Ed Dickens hammers home wood blocking to rerail No. 4014. The locomotive derailed Thursday afternoon in…
Read moreBig Boy No. 4014, shown in November 2013 when the engine was removed from the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, will…
Read moreRestored Big Boy No. 4014 will pull the first public excursion powered by a UP 4000-class ever on May 12.…
Read moreUP Big Boy No. 4014 at the Cheyenne, Wyo., round house on May 8, 2014. Five years to the day…
Read moreThe 2018 Cheyenne Frontier Days Train accelerates out of Greeley, Colo., in July. Trains: Jim Wrinn DENVER — The last…
Read moreBRIGHTON, Colo. — Investigators say the death of a woman photographing Union Pacific steam locomotive No. 844 July 21 suggests…
Read moreDENVER — Details are emerging about the moment leading up to a person’s death Saturday after being struck by Union…
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