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It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. >> In its prime, a massive steam locomotive built in Schenectady, N.Y., known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy ...

Norfolk Southern led discussions for two years about moving the Norfolk & Western Class Y6a 2156 steam freight locomotive from the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis to the Virginia Museum of ...

Engine 557 ran on coal when it first came to Alaska in 1944. Using oil, the 557 Restoration Company fired it up again in ...

A HISTORIC gathering of working 1940s steam locomotives will take place on The Swanage Railway heritage line to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of steam trains in southern England. Five classic ...