Union Pacific faced the immense challenge of hauling heavy freight trains across rugged mountain terrain, requiring locomotives with exceptional power and reliability. Unlike other railroads that ...

From the vintage Kettle Valley Steam Railway to the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, these are the best routes to take to the ...

Union Pacific’s iconic steam locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 is coming ... anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Big Boy is scheduled to arrive in Tucson at 10 a.m ...

From the vintage Kettle Valley Steam Railway to the luxurious Rocky Mountaineer, these are the best routes to take to the ...

There’s nothing more guaranteed to excite a grizzled old railway ... is a steam turbine, nothing like the 1920s and 30s experiments with conventional locomotives, nor even the Union Pacific ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4104 and the railroad’s diesel honoring Abraham Lincoln will make a round trip ...

The park includes the site of Esmond Station on the old Southern Pacific railroad main line near the ... an eastbound train passed by. The two trains collided at high speed just west of the ...

Heck, we even have the biggest Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world in southern Oregon ... to Los Angeles along the Pacific coast. - The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad's steam train travels past ...

Here are a couple of California stories — one about a fading landmark district, the other about a crooked railroad. One is a Southern California classic. The other is in San Francisco’s backyard. It’s ...

ONE of the most important enterprises in the world in connection with the production and marketing of crude sulphur is the Union Sulphur Company of New Jersey, founded by Herman Frasch, and ...

An exhibition dedicated to the Soo Line Railroad is currently occupying the display space at Upper Peninsula State Bank in Gladstone. The “towers” in U.P. State Bank’s Escanaba, Gladstone and ...

“Most people who lived in Vacaville will never forget the afternoon” when the Southern Pacific Railroad worker found the body of 14-year-old De Anna Lynn Johnson, Vacaville Police said in a ...