Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena says he wants the world’s heaviest operational steam locomotive — Big Boy 4014 — to make its first ...

The CEO of Union Pacific told Trains.com late last week that the company plans to send the engine on a transcontinental trip.

ROSEVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Union Pacific said on Monday that it will spend $20 million testing low-emissions locomotives in California. The railroad may eventually test up to 25 locomotives with various ...

Union Pacific plans to send Big Boy No. 4014 on a transcontinental trip next year as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary ...

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct. 6 through Oct. 7 ...

Union Pacific has unveiled its Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive, honoring the president who signed the bill creating Union Pacific as part of the transcontinental railroad. “Union Pacific ...

Norfolk Southern didn’t mind being late to the AC-traction party. And NS wasn’t just fashionably late, either. As Burlington ...

PITTSBURGH — Wabtec Corp. announced that the Union Pacific Railroad Co. has signed one of the largest locomotive modernization deals in history with an estimated value of more than $1 billion. The ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific will spend more than $1 billion to upgrade 600 of its old diesel locomotives over the next three years and make them more efficient, but regulators still want it to do ...

ALSO AT THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES. THIS YEAR, THERE’S A NEW UNION PACIFIC COMMEMORATIVE LOCOMOTIVE THAT WILL BE PARKED AT UNION PACIFIC’S HOME PLATE, 12TH IN COMING, THAT WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ...

The deal will see Pittsburgh-based train and equipment manufacturer Wabtec modernize 600 locomotives owned by Union Pacific, a process that will result in the recycling of about 70,000 tons of steel ...