World's largest steam engine makes first Pennsylvania whistle stop

The 1.2-million-pound Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will stop across the East Coast and Midwest this summer to celebrate the ...
WIVB Buffalo on MSN

A look inside the cab of the Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive as it makes a stop in Buffalo

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Thousands of Western New Yorkers swarmed the Walden Galleria parking lots Wednesday morning to catch a ...
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World’s largest steam locomotive making 30-minute stop in Struthers

Big Boy will be in Struthers for the first time as part of a historic coast-to-coast tour for America’s 250th anniversary.
KTIV

Operating Big Boy: Inside the cab of America’s most powerful steam engine

CARROLL, Iowa (KTIV) - Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014, the largest and most powerful operating steam locomotive in the world, ...
AOL

Aces of Trades: Tim Sposato's love of trains came first, then his career

Tim Sposato, chief mechanical officer at The Age of Steam, talks about the functionality of steam engine boilers while standing next to the cutaway view on a scrapped boiler for guided tour ...

Giant 'Big Boy' train begins a rare trip East. Here's where to see it

Historic Union Pacific locomotive is pulling a small train of cars from Wyoming across the Mississippi to Philadelphia for America's birthday party.
The News Leader Staunton on MSN

Norfolk & Western 611 steam engine comes out of retirement for 250th

The only running Norfolk & Western Class J-611, an old-fashioned steam engine train, will be giving rides out of Staunton for ...

UP-NS merger won't sideline Eastern steam

Ever since Union Pacific’s proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern was announced in July, steam fans in the East have been ...
Popular Mechanics

"100 Years of the Iron Horse": PM at the End of the Steam Locomotive

In the January 1949 issue, Popular Mechanics witnessed the end of the steam locomotive era as the American Locomotive Company, in its 100th year of operation (when combined with the history of ...