Shareholders of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern backed the railroads’ proposed $85 billion merger to create the nation’s first coast-to-coast rail network. Investors in both railroads voted ...

Just west of Revelstoke 140 years ago, Sir Donald A. Smith made history at the small settlement of Craigellachie, driving the ...

Although there are no nature-based national parks in Pennsylvania, there are 21 national park service sites to discover.

News & Products for the week of November 3rd 2025 Model railroad operators and builders can get the latest information about ...

Each year, a spectral train is said to pull up to the Cinnabar Depot at the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park. But Cinnabar is a ghost ...

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GREELEY, Colo. — The world's largest steam engine is back in Colorado. Union Pacific will bring Big Boy No. 4014 to Greeley from Tuesday to Wednesday, as part of a limited autumn excursion. The tour ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The world’s largest operating 1.2 million-pound steam locomotive is coming back to Colorado. The locomotive, known as Big Boy No. 4014, is 1.2 million pounds and 132 feet long, about ...

In July 1990, CBS viewers tuned in to a fish-out-of-water story set in a remote Alaskan village. But sharp-eyed viewers realized that the town featured in “Northern Exposure” was not real Alaska. For ...

In partnership with Friends of No. 9, the California State Railroad Museum is excited to announce the beautifully restored No. 9 steam locomotive and companion exhibit are now on display inside the ...

The AC-9 articulated steamers were another very important historical steam engine that should have been saved by Southern Pacific and put in the Sacramento Train Museum. Sadly, that did not happen. I ...

No railroad was better equipped to shoulder the heavy burden of wartime traffic thanks to the three types of Union Pacific steam locomotives that constituted its front line of defense: the 4-6-6-4 ...