Union Pacific’s No. 4014 steam locomotive is a massive 132-foot long engine that has been touring the rails of middle America ...

Big Boy No. 4014 returned to service to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, regaining its title as the world's largest operating steam locomotive ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

There will be no public access, but the locomotive will depart Denver at 9 a.m. Wednesday to travel back to Cheyenne. The 1.2 million pound Big Boy steam locomotive was built in the 1940s to ...

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 ...

Engineers wave to onlookers as Union Pacific’s historic “Big Boy” steam locomotive passes through Lawrence Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024. The “Big Boy” steam locomotive didn’t stop in ...

The largest and heaviest steam locomotive made its final stop in Colorado on Wednesday during its tour across the U.S.

“In the 1940s and 1950s, steam locomotives would stop periodically at watering towers to refill their water tender, but those were all decommissioned 60 years ago. Now, the Big Boy has to bring ...