Schedule set for UP steam trips; passenger cars delivered to Cheyenne NEWSWIRE

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Union Pacific’s salute to armed forces unit, No. 1943, powers a Monday deadhead move delivering passenger cars to Cheyenne, Wyo., for excursions this weekend. Brad J. Williams Union Pacific is preparing to run its only steam excursions of the year, the Cheyenne Frontier Days special and a subsequent trip, after a deadhead move on Monday […]

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Cheyenne’s Big Boy 4004 to shine in new paint July 9 NEWSWIRE

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Cosmetic restoration of Big Boy 4004 in Cheyenne is almost completed. This photo shows the locomotive in October 2013. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — While it will be months before Union Pacific debuts operational Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014, a cosmetically restored Big Boy within whistling distance of the UP steam shop will be […]

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Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad

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Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You’ll learn what makes the Lone Star State’s lone preserved Big Boy special! For more Big Boy video, check out Big Boy: On the Road to Restoration, […]

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Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad

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Take a look at Big Boy No. 4018 at the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas, with Trains correspondent Hayley Enoch and museum President Bob LaPrelle. You’ll learn what makes the Lone Star State’s lone preserved Big Boy special! For more Big Boy video, check out Big Boy: On the Road to Restoration, […]

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Union Pacific confirms Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 for Ogden in 2019 and more NEWSWIRE

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Big Boy No. 4014 will be in Ogden on May 10, 2019. This photo was made in Ogden in May 2014 as the dead locomotive was moved from California to Cheyenne for restoration. Trains: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Union Pacific confirmed Thursday that Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 will be in Ogden, Utah, exactly […]

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Trains Presents: Big Boy No. 4005 at the Forney Museum

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We visit Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4005 at Denver’s Forney Museum of Transportation, one of only two Big Boy locomotives housed inside. It is also the only Big Boy ever converted to burn oil for fuel and the only one to suffer a major derailment. We talk with the Forney’s Al Frank and Kayla […]

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Big Boy No. 4014 restoration update

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Trains visits Union Pacific’s steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., for an update on the restoration of Big Boy No. 4014. Join us on a tour of the shop and hear Ed Dickens, senior manager of heritage operations, describe the project’s status and the effort to have the engine back in steam in 2019! Be sure […]

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Big Boy No. 4014 restoration update

Man with hardhat looking to interviewer in large industrial workshop.

Trains visits Union Pacific’s steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., for an update on the restoration of Big Boy No. 4014. Join us on a tour of the shop and hear Ed Dickens, senior manager of heritage operations, describe the project’s status and the effort to have the engine back in steam in 2019! Be sure […]

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Progress report on Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 NEWSWIRE

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Big Boy No. 4014 in the Cheyenne, Wyo., steam shop in March 2017. Trains: Jim Wrinn DENVER – Union Pacific’s restoration of Big Boy No. 4014 enters yet another phase in coming days as the steam shop crew in Cheyenne, Wyo., plans to lift the boiler and roll out the 4-8-8-4’s trailing truck for inspection […]

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Cheyenne to restore Big Boy No. 4004 NEWSWIRE

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Union Pacific Big Boy-type 4-8-8-4 No. 4004 as it appeared in a Cheyenne, Wyo., park in 2013. The City of Cheyenne is paying to cosmetically restore the locomotive during 2018. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. — On Monday, Nov. 27, the Cheyenne City Council approved full funding for the cosmetic restoration of Big Boy No. […]

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