The world’s largest operating steam locomotive, known as Big Boy No. 4014, is coming back to Colorado this summer with two whistle stops.

Union Pacific’s famed Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest steam locomotive, will be returning to the rails on Thursday, June 29.

Union Pacific’s Big Boy, a 1.2 million-pound locomotive put into service in 1941, rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Only 25 of this kind of train were built and this is the last ...

Union Pacific’s Big Boy, a 1.2 million-pound steam locomotive first put into service in 1941, rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Dominick Williams [email protected] ...

Union Pacific’s Big Boy, a 1.2 million-pound steam locomotive first put into service in 1941, rolls into Kansas City on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. Dominick Williams [email protected] ...

The steam engine will spend the day at a private Union Pacific event. Big Boy No. 4014 will head to Mexia on Thursday, then travel through Navasota and Hempstead before arriving in Houston on ...

World’s largest steam engine ‘Big Boy’ stops in Big Sandyrough Friday. “Here we go again,” said Lisa Baggett, Big Sandy’s mayor after another train passed through the city. Railroads are a big part of ...

Big Sandy Mayor Linda Baggett poses for a portrait in her office Tuesday while holding a folder of information related to the arrival of the Union Pacific No. 4014 "Big Boy" steam locomotive.

While the Big Boy is stopped a few times in Illinois during its Heartland of America Tour, interested viewers pulled up their vehicles and brought out lawn chairs to wait of the 1941 steam engine ...

Welcome to Illinois, Big Boy. In August, Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 launched its "Heartland of America" tour, giving folks in 10 states the chance to see the classic steam engine in real life.