Oct. 12—Many trains cut through Claremore every day, rolling in along the three train tracks that bisect the city. But on Monday, a train to dwarf them all is scheduled to pull into town. Big Boy No.

Union Pacific will celebrate the 250th year of American independence with its first-ever coast-to-coast steam tour led by the Big Boy locomotive.

The world’s largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, rolls into Topeka on Oct. 17, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) The train named Big Boy was late. Anticipation and impatience ...

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is being readied for a spectacle that will stretch from ocean to ocean in 2026, turning a piece of mid‑century railroading into a rolling national event.

The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Utah this spring in the first leg of its first-ever coast-to-coast tour, Union Pacific announced.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Colorado. Union Pacific will bring Big Boy No. 4014 through Colorado from Monday, Oct. 21, to Wednesday, Oct. 23, on its "Heartland ...

A dinosaur rolled into Kansas City Tuesday night. It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the delight ...

WEST — The ground trembled, and the air filled with the deep, rhythmic chug of history as Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled through small Central Texas towns Wednesday afternoon ...