It's been decades since a steam-powered locomotive passed through Cape Girardeau, but a Union Pacific online contest gives people the power to route the train to their hometowns. City leaders are ...

“Of course I like trains!” Noah Miller, 22, exclaimed incredulously, looking beyond the Crete Park District clearing and to the trees obscuring the tracks about 100 feet ahead, as if expecting the ...

The world's largest steam engine will roll through the heart of Iowa this fall. The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 will soon depart on its Heartland of America Tour, highlighted by an overnight stop ...

HICKORY RIDGE, Ark. (KATV) — The historical steam engine locomotive, Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, has made its way to Arkansas on the "Heartland of America Tour". The Big Boy is the largest steam ...

The introduction of several advanced, efficient, and more robust power options over the years has largely overshadowed steam ...

A historic Union Pacific Railroad locomotive will stop in several Texas cities during the "Heartland of America Tour" which brings it to Fort Worth for public viewing in October. People lined the ...

A historical steam engine is scheduled to be at Pine Bluff’s Union Station from 10:30-10:46 a.m. Friday. Union Pacific Steam Engine 844 will be pulling its tender, two additional tenders, a commissary ...

For sight-seeing enthusiasts, history buffs and lovers of locomotives, witnessing the arrival of Union Pacific Railroad's "living legend" Saturday in Cape Girardeau, was a once-in-a-lifetime ...

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 ...