Union Pacific’s 1.2-million-pound iron giant is on its first coast-to-coast tour. At every stop, rail fans break down.

Huge crowds of train fans turn out as the 1940s era Big Boy steam locomotive is making a rare trip cross country.

One of the largest and most powerful steam locomotives ever built is scheduled to make a brief stop in Kit Carson later this ...

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, “could dig as much in a day as a ...

Locomotive engineers at Union Pacific voted to ratify a new five-year contract with the railroad operator, the BLET-Teamsters union said on Friday. Under the new contract, nearly 6,000 members ...