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7,000 HP: Jay Leno Rides a Big Boy, the Biggest Steam Locomotive in the World

Riddle me this: what has 24 wheels, weighs more than three Jumbo Jets, and can pull five miles (eight kilometers) of cargo at seventy miles per hour full steam? That last clue should easily give it ...

Historic Big Boy locomotive making Ogden stop for America250 celebration

A historic steam giant will draw crowds to Ogden, as Union Pacific’s Big Boy locomotive arrives for a free public event tied ...
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See ‘Big Boy,’ world’s largest steam locomotive, during stop at KC’s Union Station

A dinosaur rolled into Kansas City Tuesday night. It’s not really a dinosaur, but the Union Pacific No. 4014 Big Boy steam locomotive that rumbled and hissed to a stop at Union Station to the delight ...
Standard-Examiner

Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam locomotive returns to Ogden as part of Westward Bound Tour

OGDEN — A legendary locomotive made its return to Ogden this weekend. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 made a weekend stop that drew thousands of visitors of all ages to Union Station from its arrival ...
Post Register

Rolling with the Big Boy: A first peek at America’s most famous iron horse ahead of its transcontinental tour

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A handful of rail fans peered through the fencing from the I-80 bridge into the Union Pacific rail yard in Cheyenne on Sunday. The rising sun backdropped the shadowy figures. Banging ...