Missouri Pacific history is easier to understand if the railroad is considered in three parts: the lines west of St. Louis, ...

They were versatile locomotives. Union Pacific wanted to eliminate double-heading and helper locomotives, and these monsters did just that. Christened Big Boy by workers at the American Locomotive ...

Just days after we wrote about the problem of trying to introduce cleaner locomotives into existing railway's fleets, Union Pacific Railroad has unveiled the first of 60 new environmentally ...

Instead, this is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific’s oil-fired condensing turbo-electrics. The new idea here ...

Big Boy and its bright Armour yellow consist (rail cars forming a train) was scheduled to be at Union Pacific’s Global ... you’ve been near a working steam locomotive, you know the sounds ...

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 ...