NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The world's largest operating steam locomotive has several Louisiana whistle-stops and overnight stays in two cities as part of a 10-state tour. Big Boy No. 4014 will be on display ...

In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the mountains of Wyoming and ...

Thousands turned out Thursday to catch a rare glimpse of a historic piece of Americana. Big Boy No. 4014, an 80-year-old steam locomotive, serves as a symbol for a country built on railroads and a ...

GOODING — Don’t miss the chance to see a genuine piece of American history Friday and Saturday when the Union Pacific’s “Living Legend,” giant steam locomotive No. 844 makes an overnight stop in ...

Rail enthusiasts around the country are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime event as Union Pacific’s legendary steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, embarks on th ...

It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

Locomotives have a fascinating history. They were one of the first methods to mass transport goods from one place to another, and while the first railroads used horses to pull carts along the tracks, ...

LAWRENCE — When the Kinks’ Ray Davies penned the tune “Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,” the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at ...

If you’ve been near a working steam locomotive, you know the sounds, the power and the thrill of it. As it drew closer, that wave of emotion hit me again. How a giant machine that escaped the scrap ...

On Saturday, May 13, visitors to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Southeast Portland can take a ride on an 111-year-old steam locomotive. Nowadays, most trains are electric or diesel-powered, but ...