Of the 25 Big Boy locomotives commissioned by Union Pacific in 1941, only eight survive today. Union Pacific reacquired Big Boy No. 4014 in 2013 from the RailGiants Train Museum in Pomona, Calif., and ...
On Tuesday afternoon, the largest operating steam locomotive in the world — Union Pacific No. 4014, better known as Big Boy — made a big stop in a tiny East Texas town that’s oxymoronically ...