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Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014 will visit Colorado, for a limited excursion tour this July. A larger tour is planned in ...
The world’s largest operating steam locomotive, known as Big Boy No. 4014, is coming back to Colorado this summer with two ...
OROVILLE — A legend from the past will be rolling into town Thursday when the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive makes a whistle stop at the old Oroville Depot. The world’s ...
Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, will make two whistle stops in Colorado at the end of its 10-state Heartland of America Tour before returning to its Cheyenne ...
A Casper man’s lifelong passion for railroading led to a career as a passenger train conductor. The 82-year-old loves trains ...
He said the steam that powers the engine also fires off the whistle, which has an "enjoyable musical sound" unlike train horns heard every day in Claremore. "This is not your typical train ...
Consisting of a hollow cylindrical tube attached to the earliest steam engine trains, this whistle emitted that iconic, single-toned blast we've come to associate with locomotive transport.
The whistle of Baldwin Locomotive Works #26 echoed through Lackawanna County as 170 passengers climbed aboard the sold-out ...
And that distinctive steam whistle will be moaning at every crossing and bridge ... “The 611 J-class was the pinnacle of steam-locomotive technology,” said Scott Lindsay, chief mechanical officer of ...
At 12 noon on Wednesday, January 1, the crew of the Swanage Railway Trust’s unique Victorian T3 class steam locomotive No. 563 will blow its whistle as the engine departs Swanage station ...