Big crowds greet the arrival of Union Pacific’s restored Big Boy No. 4014 as it arrives at the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot for its christening ceremony. After UP CEO Lance Fritz and his wife christen the massive locomotive, it departs with UP’s other active steam engine, 4-8-4 No. 844, on the start of its trip to […]
Huge crowds gather at the Union Pacific depot in Laramie, Wyo., to greet the arrival of Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 and 4-8-4 No. 844 as they make the first stop on their journey to Utah for the Golden Spike sesquicentennial. Follow Trains News Wire for more on this historic trip. […]
UP Chairman Lance Fritz and his wife Nancy christen Big Boy No. 4014 while Cheyenne Mayor Marian Orr and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon, right, applaud. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn No. 4014 and No. 844 roll through Dale Junction, Wyo., on Saturday, while a stack train waits. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn RAWLINS, Wyo. – Union Pacific Big Boy […]
Union Pacific Senior Manager of Heritage Operations Ed Dickens in the cab of UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Friday, May 3. TRAINS: Steve Sweeney Steam crew members work on Big Boy No. 4014 in Union Pacific’s Cheyenne, Wyo., steam shops on Friday, May 3. TRAINS: Steve Sweeney CHEYENNE, Wyo. — […]
UP Big Boy No. 4014 departs Cheyenne, Wyo., just before sunset on Thursday on its first test run. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn Why, yes, it is big: UP’s newly restored Big Boy heads out of Cheyenne on Thursday. Another test run is possible today. TRAINS: Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Running into a setting sun, newly […]
A westbound Union Pacific train prepares to pass under U.S. Route 287 near Hanna, Wyo., in September 2018. Officials are recommending that photographers pursuing UP Big Boy No. 4014 plan to take their photos from locations off limited-access highways where stopping along the roadside is prohibited. TRAINS: David Lassen OGDEN, Utah — What can you […]
Big Boy No. 4014 heads west out of Cheyenne on Thursday evening on a test run into Colorado. Jim Wrinn CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Union Pacific is ready to roll Big Boy No. 4014 west from Cheyenne on Saturday morning, according to the latest email update from the Union Pacific Steam Club. “If you don’t already […]
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 moved under its own power for the first time on Wednesday night, backing out of the Cheyenne shop. A test run could come today. Michael Pannell CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Big Boy is stretching his legs. On Wednesday night, Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 backed out of the Back Shop […]
On April 12, Wabtec tested modernized locomotives for its two largest customers, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern. The UP unit seen here is known as a C44ACM. ERIE, Pa. – Pascal Schweitzer, vice president, global services organization, freight, under Wabtec, is proud of what his company has achieved in the past five years and what […]
CSX commemorative units Nos. 1776 and 911 at Huntington, W.Va., on April 30, 2019. Chris Anderson HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When specially-painted CSX locomotives Nos. 1776 and 911 rolled out of the paint shop in Huntington on Tuesday, the big GE Evolution Series engines essentially ushered in a new era at the railroad, one which could […]
DARIEN, Conn. — Genesee & Wyoming reported weaker first quarter results on Tuesday as traffic and operating income fell on its North American railroads due largely to the impact of winter weather and the flooding that followed. North American same railroad operating income declined 4%, to $69.3 million. Operating expenses rose 17%, more than offsetting […]
Atlas Model Railroad Co. HO scale General Electric U23B diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric U23B diesel locomotive. New paint schemes. Low short hood: Missouri Pacific (blue and white) and Conrail Express (blue and white, one road number). New numbers: Low short hood: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue and yellow warbonnet); Chessie System […]
