FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan A Canadian National steam excursion train, led by CN 4-8-2 No. 6060 makes its way to Spadina Avenue engine facilities in Toronto on July 27, 1977. FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan Three diesels rest outside the Spadina Avenue engine facilities in Toronto on July 27, 1977. FULL SCREEN Brian Buchanan Canadian National […]
Railroad: Union Pacific
Big Boy Time Lapse Video Nov. 2013
Join Trains’ Editor Jim Wrinn on a three-day adventure watching Union Pacific Big Boy-type No. 4014 take its first baby steps toward restoration in Pomona, Calif. Jim’s three-minute time lapse video documents the painstaking work of Union Pacific’s heritage department in hand-laying track and carefully towing the giant 4-8-8-4 locomotive in sweltering early autumn weather. […]
Steve’s Big Boy Firebox Tour
Join Trains Associate Editor Steve Sweeney on a guided tour of Big Boy No. 4014 – from the firebox! Narration provided by Union Pacific’s senior manager of heritage operations, Ed Dickens Jr. […]
Big Boy Time Lapse Video Nov. 2013
Join Trains’ Editor Jim Wrinn on a three-day adventure watching Union Pacific Big Boy-type No. 4014 take its first baby steps toward restoration in Pomona, Calif. Jim’s three-minute time lapse video documents the painstaking work of Union Pacific’s heritage department in hand-laying track and carefully towing the giant 4-8-8-4 locomotive in sweltering early autumn weather. […]
Video: Big locomotives on a small HO scale shelf layout
Check out scenes from this North American themed HO scale shelf layout in Germany. You’ll big Union Pacific steam and diesel locomotives. Video shot by Andreas Rindermann. […]
Video: HO scale Union Pacific stack train through central Texas
Union Pacific stack train with DPU running through the finished part (about 1/3) of Per Laursen’s modern HO scale model railroad. The model train layout theme is UP with BNSF trackage rights in east-central Texas. The main city of Waycross is fictional but the other towns Gladewater, Livingston, and LaGrange are made to resemble the […]
Video: Big locomotives on a small HO scale shelf layout
Check out scenes from this North American themed HO scale shelf layout in Germany. You’ll big Union Pacific steam and diesel locomotives. Video shot by Andreas Rindermann. […]
Video: HO scale Union Pacific stack train through central Texas
Union Pacific stack train with DPU running through the finished part (about 1/3) of Per Laursen’s modern HO scale model railroad. The model train layout theme is UP with BNSF trackage rights in east-central Texas. The main city of Waycross is fictional but the other towns Gladewater, Livingston, and LaGrange are made to resemble the […]
Historic Union Pacific Big Boy photos
FULL SCREEN Jim Shaughnessy The front half of Big Boy No. 4005 forms a wall of steel above a hostler at the Laramie, Wyo., engine terminal in August 1957. FULL SCREEN Jim Shaughnessy Battling up Sherman Hill, Big Boy No. 4011 exits the north tunnel at Hermosa, Wyo., with an eastbound freight in August 1957. […]
Trains exclusive: Union Pacific Big Boy search began two years ago, led to 4014 NEWSWIRE
LOS ANGELES — Union Pacific’s quest to return one of its famous 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotives to steam began about two years ago and soon focused on No. 4014. That rebuild could take five years or more to complete, as Trains News Wire learned in a wide-ranging interview with UP’s steam chief. He says the […]
Union Pacific Big Boy: The rebirth of a legend NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4014 on display at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona, Calif., in December 2012. David Lustig Through the 1940s and 1950s, Union Pacific’s 25 4-8-8-4 Big Boys symbolized powerful, big-time railroading in the wide-open American West. Now, Union Pacific is bringing one of these legendary locomotives, No. 4014, […]
Union Pacific freight station drawings
Check out these plans for the Union Pacific Glendale freight depot from Model Railroader magazine. Union Pacific built this modern-looking freight station midway along the 1.25-mile Glendale Branch that once was part of the former Glendale & Montrose Ry. The post-World War II structure was built of brick with large windows for natural light, and […]
