Chicago Tribune

‘First in the country’: Metra to showcase game-changing battery-operated passenger train

A high-tech, battery-powered Metra train will leave the drawing board and enter reality next week. The trainset is headed to Chicago and will be exhibited at the American Public Transportation ...
US Environmental Protection Agency

Locomotives and Locomotive Engines; Preemption of State and Local Regulations– Final Rulemaking

EPA has issued revisions to its regulations that address the preemption of state and local emission regulation of locomotives and engines used in locomotives. This rule implements a policy change that ...
9NEWS

Rare chance to ride world’s largest steam locomotive as Big Boy rolls to Colorado

DENVER — The world's largest steam locomotive will return to Colorado on a limited holiday tour. Union Pacific said Big Boy No. 4014 will make its first-ever holiday tour with a trip from Cheyenne to ...
Hot Rod

Is Union Pacific’s Big Boy Locomotive the Ultimate Hot Rod? We Hit the Rails to Find Out

To celebrate America’s 250th—the semiquincentennial—in a huge, or should we say Big way, the Union Pacific Railroad embarked on a truly epic, once-in-a-lifetime journey powered by their most prized ...
WNDU

Historic steam locomotive leaves Elkhart for restoration in Fort Wayne

ELKHART, Ind. - A steam locomotive that has sat at Elkhart’s National New York Central Railroad Museum since the 1980s is leaving the city to undergo restoration in Fort Wayne. The 3001 Mohawk steam ...
Wall Street Journal

A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry

ALTOONA, Pa.—This summer’s tear-jerker isn’t a rom-com. It’s Big Boy 4014. The 1.2-million-pound locomotive, built in 1941 to haul heavy freight across the Wasatch Mountains between Utah and Wyoming, ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Big crowd turns out for Big Boy, as world's largest steam locomotive makes St. Louis stop

ST. LOUIS — Suffocating humidity and an official heat advisory couldn’t deter an enormous crowd from swarming Union Station to see Big Boy on Sunday — Union Pacific’s monstrous and aptly named 1.2 ...
WTVF

Nashville's steam locomotive 576 fires up its boiler for the first time since 1952

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For more than half a century, a locomotive that once helped move troops and supplies in World War II sat as a landmark at Centennial Park in Nashville. It was once a classic ...
Popular Science

How to track ‘Big Boy,’ the world’s biggest steam locomotive

The 1.2 million-pound train still has a few stops left on its first coast-to-coast tour. By Laura Baisas Published Jul 14, 2026 3:01 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Largest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World Weighs 1.2 Million Pounds. Now, the Historic Train May Be Coming to Your Town

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is currently chugging across the United States. It’s known as Big Boy No. 4014, and crowds of Americans are lining railroad tracks to watch it pass ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Big Boy, the world’s largest working steam locomotive, comes to St. Louis

Union Pacific's massive locomotive Big Boy 4014 comes to the St. Louis area July 18-19. Here it is shown in July, 2024. They don’t call it “Big Boy” for nothing. Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 is the ...
NPR

The biggest steam locomotive is whistle-stopping across the U.S.

Union Pacific Railroad's Big Boy No. 4014– the world's largest operating steam locomotive – has been barnstorming from coast-to-coast in a celebration of America's 250 th birthday. Based in Wyoming, ...