Few Americans know that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was the first freight railroad to lay tracks west of the Mississippi.

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. "Forty years of ...

Lucile Morris Upton and newspaper photographer Betty Love took a trip through the Missouri and Arkansas mountains on one of the last passenger trains of the White River Division of the Missouri ...

Union Pacific has a new series of locomotives painted to recall the railroads that have merged into the UP. "Our reputation as America's greatest railroad has been strengthened by the many lines that ...

Kansas City families are going to have the chance to see a historic steam engine next week.Union Pacific’s historic Big Boy steam locomotive No. 4014 is touring the Union Pacific system throughout ...

DE SOTO, Mo. — The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is expected to make a stop in De Soto on Thursday, Sept. 12. Union Pacific Railroad announced that its famed Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive ...