Welcoming Big Boy: Photos, videos capture world's largest operating steam engine in Western Pa.

Donna Smolko lifted her camera phone as a 1.2 million pound Union Pacific steam engine's high-pitched whistle blew in Cresson. And in Johnstown, crowds greeted Big Boy No. 4014 with a standing ...

The world's largest operating steam locomotive is set to roll through the area. The Union Pacific’s famed Big Boy No. 4014 is journeying through the East Coast for the first time in ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The largest operating steam engine in the world will make its way to Western New York next month. The massive train is called the “Big Boy” and is operated by Union Pacific. It’s ...

NORTH EAST — White steam vanished. Black smoke cleared. The chugga-chugg of the locomotive disappeared. A few minutes later, a little boy, wearing a Big Boy hat and a Big Boy shirt, began to sing the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Union Pacific has released the 2026 schedule for Big Boy No. 4014, the world’s largest operating steam locomotive. The locomotive will travel coast-to-coast this summer for the ...

Union Pacific's Big Boy 4014 steam engine pulled rail cars across Northwestern Ohio June 6 with train fans lining the tracks at nearly every county road and street crossing it passed. It made a short ...

Big Boy, the world's largest operating steam locomotive in the world, will pass through several municipalities while making ...