a locomotive delivered by Union Pacific Railroad in December of 1941, still holds distinction in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most powerful steam engine in operation today with an ...

There are steam locomotives, and then there’s “Big Boy.” At 604 tons and 132 feet long and with a 4-8-8-4-wheel arrangement, it is the largest, most powerful steam locomotive in the world.

8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Union Pacific’s Global III Terminal, located at 2701 Intermodal Drive. The steam engine will ...

Union Pacific Railroad’s “Challenger” No. 3985, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will stop in Shakopee as part of a five-state, 1,750-mile tour from Cheyenne, Wyo., to ...

The Age of Steam Roundhouse Museum has added former Missouri Pacific business car No. 11, now known as Ohio Central No.

Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

Scottish mechanical engineer James Watt patents his design for the first practical steam engine ... while simultaneously chartering a Union Pacific Railroad Company to build west from the Missouri ...

Union Pacific Big Boy Loco Add-On The Union Pacific Railroad's Big Boy 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive is undoubtedly the beast of American railroading history, and this epitome of heavy haulage is now ...

Woodburn is asking Union Pacific Railroad to voluntarily make changes, including reducing train speed, to improve safety after a recent fatality.