April 15, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Associated Press, April 15, 2014) CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In its prime, a massive steam locomotive known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy freight trains over the mountains of Wyoming and Utah....
April 14, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, April 13, 2014) ELGIN, Ill. — To mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination next year, an Illinois man is constructing a full-size replica of the funeral train car that carried the president’s body from...
April 11, 2014 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, NS
(Source: Bluefield Daily Telegraph, April 10, 2014) BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — A column of smoke rose high from the Norfolk Southern yard in Bluefield as the ex-Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 steam locomotive built up a head of steam, making ready for its trip to Grundy,...
