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Railroad fans in Missouri and Arkansas will have a chance to see one of Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotives later this year because they won an online contest. More than 76,000 votes were ...
One of Union Pacific's popular steam engines will visit Missouri later this year as it tours the country. The Big Boy No. 4014 is scheduled to depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 5, traveling ...
A steam locomotive taking a nation-wide tour will pass through East Texas this month. Big Boy No. 4014 embarked from Cheyenne, Wyoming for its "Heartland of America" tour Wednesday, and plans to ...
William Crush, a passenger agent of the Katy (Missouri-Kansas-Texas) railroad, talked his superiors into letting him stage a locomotive collision promoting the Katy.
The largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, will depart on the "Heartland of America Tour" on Wednesday, Aug. 28, from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Big Boy No. 4014 will cross the United States, making ...
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — On Tuesday, residents of Osawatomie, Kansas, took a walk through their town history with the 30-minute stop of Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - One of Union Pacific’s original steam engines returns to the rails next month for a cross-country tour. Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest steam locomotive, will ...
Union Pacific’s historic Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014 is touring the Union Pacific system throughout 2019 to commemorate the transcontinental railroad’s 150th anniversary.
Crush worked for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad ... "Scalding steam and red hot iron poured from the sky ... Connolly used two 40-ton locomotives from the Des Moines Northern & Western ...
All aboard! It’s full steam ahead for Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 as it returns to Arkansas, making stops across the state from September 13-16.
AUSTIN, Texas — A craze swept America around the beginning of the 20th century: Inviting spectators to watch two steam locomotives running at high speeds crash into each other head-on.