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CHEYENNE, Wyo. >> In its prime, a massive steam locomotive built in Schenectady, N.Y., known as Big Boy No. 4014 was a moving eruption of smoke and vapor, a 6,300-horsepower brute dragging heavy ...

It is big. And loud. Furthermore, it belches steam. "It's the smell," says railroad fanatic Sam Sargent about a 1940s train engine known as the Union Pacific Big Boy, the largest, heaviest and most ...

THE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE ENERGY STORY: How These Locomotives Used Energy and What Was Done to Make Them More Efficient. By Walter Simpson. The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society, Inc. Hardcover, 144 ...

Norfolk Southern led discussions for two years about moving the Norfolk & Western Class Y6a 2156 steam freight locomotive from the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis to the Virginia Museum of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — The restoration of a World War 2-era steam locomotive, Number 576, is forging ahead at full speed, as it finally receives its wheels back. With the support of the Nashville ...

A HISTORIC gathering of working 1940s steam locomotives will take place on The Swanage Railway heritage line to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of steam trains in southern England. Five classic ...