The Southern Pacific 982 was built in 1919 and has lived in Houston for much of its existence. Today, a group's entire ...

What might be more surprising, however, is that the most powerful steam engine in the world is also one of the oldest locomotives in service and was constructed all the way back in the early 1940s.

Andrews had just returned from the South after an earlier attempt to hijack a steam locomotive, which was aborted when the engineer failed to arrive. For the second operation, he selected one ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 is making a stop in Houston as a part of its Big Boy Heartland of America Tour.

A piece of American history will be on display this weekend in downtown Los Angeles as part of a rail safety event at Union ...

Hy-polite Uhry, and Henry A. Luttgens, both of Patterson, N. J., for overheating steam within the smoke box of locomotive engines for the purpose of improving the working of steam in cylinders ...

were actually sent over. Thus, instead of locomotives with 18 x 24-inch cylinders and 1,200 to 1,300 square feet of heating surface, and 160 pounds of steam pressure, the American builders would ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 made a stop at a private Union Pacific Event on Wednesday and will leave for Hearne at 9 a.m ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - The massive steam locomotive 4014 from Union Pacific Railroad, or “Big Boy” as they call it, is going through Region 8 and has stopped in Jonesboro. The train departed ...

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 - will roll into and through Houston in the coming weeks. It will stop ...

Modern technology and traditional methods were combined to build the locomotive A new steam locomotive has been launched in Sussex. The Bluebell Railway has welcomed the LB&SCR Marsh Brighton ...

A new steam locomotive has been launched in Sussex. The Bluebell Railway has welcomed the LB&SCR Marsh Brighton Atlantic 32424 locomotive - named ‘Beachy Head’ - that has been more than two ...