Hundreds of Kansans greet the world's largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, on Oct. 17, 2024, in North Topeka. (Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The train named Big Boy was late.

Hundreds gathered at Fort Worth’s T&P Station on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, to see Union Pacific Railroad’s Big Boy No. 4014. It was the second day the historic locomotive was on display in Fort Worth.

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Nebraskans along the historic Union Pacific mainline will get their first looks at the railroad’s newly restored “Big Boy” — the world’s largest operating steam locomotive — in July and again in ...

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The proposed $85 billion merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads, which would create the first U.S.

The world’s largest steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014, rolls into Topeka on Oct. 17, 2024. (Photo by Anna Kaminski/Kansas Reflector) The train named Big Boy was late. Anticipation and impatience ...