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It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — A big piece of American history rolled into the Old Pueblo Thursday, and there's still a chance to check it out in person. Union Pacific's "Great Race Across the Southwest" tour made a ...

The Northwest Railway Museum is completing a trade this week that will send a 1951 diesel engine from their collection to Nevada, and bring a 1940 locomotive from Longview to its original home in King ...

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — One of the world's biggest and most powerful steam locomotives is chugging to its big debut after five years of restoration work. Big Boy No. 4014 rolled out of a Union Pacific ...