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Well, this week, we are all that crazy enthusiastic railroad fan, thanks to some very special occurrences with the Union Pacific's historic steam locomotive — Big Boy No. 4014 is hitting the ...
A modern train approaches, left, as Big Boy 4014, a fully restored Union Pacific steam locomotive, is parked for viewing Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, at Audubon Riverside Park in New Orleans.
HEARNE, Texas (KBTX) - Union Pacific’s popular steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 will again visit the Brazos Valley this weekend. The train is scheduled to arrive around 4:15 p.m. in Hearne and ...
ROCHELLE, Ill. (WTVO) — Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest steam engine train, is set to return to northern Illinois this week, and here’s where you can see it. The Big ...
No. 4014 departs at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday. Other activities: Food trucks will be available, model train sets, local rail vendors and family activities.
The last was retired in 1962. Union Pacific donated No. 4014 in 1961 the RailGiants Train Museum. A year later the locomotive arrived in Pomona, according to a company news release.
The 4014 was retired in late 1961, and spent the next 52 years eliciting gasps and whoops of delight at the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, California.
In this tour across the Midwest, Big Boy No. 4014 will travel 11,000 miles. The trip will conclude on Aug. 8, then Big Boy will rest for a month before heading on a "Great Race Across the Southwest." ...
INTERACTIVE MAP: Steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014, at 132 feet and 1.2 million pounds, rumbles across Arkansas Restored 4014 blast from past August 22, 2021 by Neal Earley ...
The train departs for Cheyenne on Saturday morning. CBS Union Pacific took delivery of Big Boy No. 4014 in December 1941. It was retired in 1961 after traveling 1,031,205 miles in 20 years.
Big Boy 4014, a restored Union Pacific steam locomotive, is stopped in Luling on Friday, August 20, 2021. People gathered on both sides of the tracks to view the locomotive at Gassen Street.
Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 train arrives in the Brazos Valley The train is making stops in Hearne, Navasota and Hempstead. The API failed to deliver the resource. By Rusty Surette ...