For Trains editors, the story of 2019 is — and has to be — the return of a Big Boy. Yes, we mean Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 — a speedy 700-tons of steel and steam when fully fueled and ready to go. Despite being out of service since the time Dwight Eisenhower was President, […]
Train Topic: Union Pacific Big Boy
Crowd estimates for Big Boy 4014: 1.1 million plus NEWSWIRE
UP 4014 on display in West Chicago in July. Trains: Jim Wrinn OMAHA, Neb. — How many people saw Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 run in 2019? That is a question whose answer we’ll never know with full certainty, but estimates are coming in. UP says it counted 115,000 visitors who went through its […]
UPDATED: Southwest law enforcement officials largely unaware of Union Pacific Big Boy’s pending arrival NEWSWIRE
Tail-gating vehicles are stacked up on a rural Iron County, Utah, dirt road paralleling the Union Pacific’s main line. A medical helicopter prepares to lift off with the most seriously-injured. A total of six drivers and 10 passengers were involved. Iron County (Utah) Sheriff’s Department “What steam locomotive?” That was the initial response when Trains […]
Big Boy pursuit believed to be involved in six-car accident NEWSWIRE
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 passes through Deseret, Utah, on Friday. The Big Boy’s trip through southern Utah on Saturday apparently figured in a six-car accident that injured two people. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn BERYL, Utah — Six vehicles were involved in an accident apparently sparked by efforts to see Union Pacific Big Boy No. […]
Union Pacific Big Boy’s Great Southwest Tour: Caliente, Nevada, to Las Vegas NEWSWIRE
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s Great Southwest Tour. In this video, Trains editors take you on the road between Caliente, Nevada, and Las Vegas as Big Boy rolls to California. […]
Big Boy’s Great Southwest Tour: Milford, Utah to Caliente, Nevada NEWSWIRE
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s Great Southwest Tour. In this video, Trains editors take you on the road between Millford, Utah, and Caliente, Nevada as Big Boy rolls to California. […]
Big Boy on the loose in Wyoming as part of Union Pacific’s Southwest Tour NEWSWIRE
Join Trains for Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014’s journey through the U.S. Southwest with this video from Wyoming! Big Boy is headed to California for excursion between the Los Angeles basin on Cajon Pass before heading through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado. Route information is available online. […]
Big Boy on the move again, bound for California to begin lengthy tour NEWSWIRE
Big Boy No. 4014 takes Track 3 across Sherman Hill at Speer, Wyo., on Sept. 27, 2019, on the start of its 60-day journey across the southwest and south. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 begins the third day of its exhaustive Southwestern tour today with a trip […]
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 to extend tour through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and Colorado before Thanksgiving home coming NEWSWIRE
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 will be home in time for Thanksgiving — arriving at the Cheyenne shops on Nov. 27 after it completes the tour it begins today. In an email to members of the Union Pacific Steam Club, railroad officials announced that after Big Boy’s Southwest Tour stops […]
Big Boy test run today; flash visit opportunity this afternoon in Cheyenne NEWSWIRE
UP 4014 will be in steam today in Cheyenne. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Big Boy is alive again. Union Pacific No. 4014 was expected to make a short test run today and the Cheyenne Depot Museum announced a flash visit this afternoon. The museum posted the following on its Facebook page this morning: […]
MRVP Insider: Out and About with UP’s Big Boy
Union Pacific’s restored no. 4014 4-8-8-4 Big Boy steam locomotive recently roared into America’s Dairyland, and MRVP (Jenny, Kent, Ben, Diane, and David) wasn’t about to miss it! Enjoy a quick look at this massive, majestic machine steaming across the Wisconsin countryside. […]
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will depart on its fall tour Sept. 27 NEWSWIRE
Big Boy No, 4014 is back on the main line Sept. 27. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will depart Cheyenne on Sept. 27 for its fall tour that will cover much of the southwest and southern U.S. served by the UP. The railroad on Wednesday released operating and […]
