About four years ago, Keith Bass and Aaron McCreight took a trip to Southern Louisiana to buy a tractor. As any mechanically ...

Big Boy No. 4014 was last in Texas in the fall of 2024, passing through Houston on Oct. 6 and through Fort Worth on Oct. 10 ...

If you are a fan of trains, or just history, or maybe you just want to see something that is powerful and cool. Union Pacific ...

The Railroad Commission needs to be more proactive on pipeline safety. We need to utilize data and risk analysis to help ...

When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

Big Boy is 133 feet long and weighs 1.2 million pounds, requiring a “hinged” frame to help it get around curves.

FORT WORTH – Union Pacific Railroad's famed Big Boy locomotive made a stop in North Texas Thursday morning. Big Boy No. 4014's Heartland of America Tour included a stop at Fort Worth's T&P Station in ...

The Texas State Railroad State Park runs on borrowed time. At best, it seems doomed to atrophy to relic status. At worst, it'll drown. Blame for the tragic situation with the state railroad, and all ...