Alaska Public Media

Alaska's last steam engine retired in the '50s. These volunteers aim to get it back on track.

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...
Chicago Tribune

Hundreds line up to watch Union Pacific Big Boy steam engine pass through Southland

“Of course I like trains!” Noah Miller, 22, exclaimed incredulously, looking beyond the Crete Park District clearing and to the trees obscuring the tracks about 100 feet ahead, as if expecting the ...
katv

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 tours Arkansas on the Heartland of America Tour

HICKORY RIDGE, Ark. (KATV) — The historical steam engine locomotive, Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, has made its way to Arkansas on the "Heartland of America Tour". The Big Boy is the largest steam ...
NBC DFW

Union Pacific's ‘Big Boy' steam engine arrives in Texas on ‘Heartland' tour

A historic Union Pacific Railroad locomotive will stop in several Texas cities during the "Heartland of America Tour" which brings it to Fort Worth for public viewing in October. People lined the ...
Yahoo

Here's how to track Big Boy 4014 as it makes its way to Salina this week

Big Boy No. 4014, Union Pacific steam locomotive is rolling into Salina this week, giving people in central Kansas another chance to see the 132-feet long train. Originally put into service in 1941, ...
AOL

The Union Pacific Big Boy steam engine is visiting Boone and Ames in early September

The world's largest steam engine will roll through the heart of Iowa this fall. The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will soon depart on its Heartland of America Tour, highlighted by an overnight stop ...
Southeast Missourian

Union Pacific No. 844 steam locomotive in Scott City

The Union Pacific No. 844 steam locomotive makes a brief stop Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 in Scott City while on its way to Memphis for the grand opening on Saturday of the new Big River Crossing, a ...