Oct. 12—Many trains cut through Claremore every day, rolling in along the three train tracks that bisect the city. But on Monday, a train to dwarf them all is scheduled to pull into town. Big Boy No.

The world’s largest operating steam locomotive is being readied for a spectacle that will stretch from ocean to ocean in 2026, turning a piece of mid‑century railroading into a rolling national event.

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 ...

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 ...

MEXIA, Texas (KWTX) - The world’s largest operating steam engine, Big Boy No. 4014, made a stop at E Commerce St. Crossing in Mexia as part of the Pacific Union’s Heartland of America Tour. Hundreds ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The world's largest steam engine is coming back to Colorado. Union Pacific will bring Big Boy No. 4014 through Colorado from Monday, Oct. 21, to Wednesday, Oct. 23, on its "Heartland ...

BIG SANDY — The name Big Sandy is an oxymoron. It’s a tiny town. But thanks to a big steam engine, it’s a big spot on a big map. On Tuesday, the largest operating steam engine in the world — the Union ...

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 ...

It is just a machine — one from a bygone era — built to accomplish something newer locomotives can achieve with far more efficiency. To Ed Dickens and the throngs who will gather along Houston area ...

In the 1950s, a new kind of locomotive made even extreme hills easy for trains to climb. But this extra-powerful engine came with significant downsides.