The locomotive will start rolling on the Rock Island Line later this month before moving to other of the rail agency's lines.

Metra has added to its fleet of specially painted locomotives with an F40PH-3 honoring veterans. The Chicago Sun-Times ...

Locomotives in the scrapyard Sitting switchers The switcher is a rapidly-dying species on American railroads. Pushed out of ...

The Surface Transportation Board has taken Union Pacific to task for an ongoing lack of cooperation in a new decision ...

Using a standard Challenger locomotive as a starting point, the Union Pacific team enlarged the firebox and boiler to give the new locomotive even more horsepower. But this presented two problems. The ...

Ahead of the observance of Veterans Day on Monday, Nov. 11, Metra has unveiled a special locomotive honoring Americans who ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will depart from Denver Union Station back to the locomotive's home base in Cheyenne, ending the locomotive's "Heartland of America Tour." Big Boy No. 4014 will ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Colorado. Union Pacific will bring Big Boy No. 4014 through Colorado from Monday, Oct. 21, to Wednesday, Oct. 23, on its ...

THANK YOU. AND THE BIG BOY OFFICIAL Union Pacific's iconic Big Boy locomotive rolled into Kansas City on Tuesday as part of its "Heartland of America" tour, drawing train enthusiasts from across ...

IN TEXAS ABOARD UNION PACIFIC’S BIG BOY TRAIN — Jim Vena ... that the day’s portion of UP’s Big Boy steam locomotive tour begins in West, Texas. (The name of the town causes some confusion ...