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A close-up view of Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 steam locomotive focusses on its massive driving wheels and cylinders and carries the legend ‘Get Up Close and Personal with Big Boy.’

Big Boy 4014 Journey Schedule

Few locomotives capture the imagination quite like Union Pacific Big Boy 4014. As the world’s largest steam locomotive continues its America 250 tour, thousands of fans will gather trackside to witness this legendary machine in action. Where could you join them?

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In this color photograph of Big Boy 4014 taken by Ian Logan in October 2019, crowds cluster around Big Boy 4014 in the Union Pacific West Colton Yard, Los Angeles.

Big Journey for a Big Boy

The world’s largest steam locomotive, Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014, is traveling coast to coast across the United States to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, drawing thousands of spectators.

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In this colour photograph by ©Dick Manton the 4-6-2 Coronation class locomotive Duchess of Hamilton hauls a special passenger train at Pontefract, West Yorkshire, smoke pouring from its chimney.

Journalist on the Footplate

How many journalists get to drive a Coronation class steam locomotive? Our intrepid author Jonathan Glancey did. In a podcast published today he also tells what it was like riding the footplate of Duchess of Hamilton from Settle to Carlisle and what he loves about the marriage of art and engineering.

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