Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s. Of the 25 built by the American Locomotive Co. in Schenectady, New York, from 1941 to 1944, eight remain.

A Union Pacific train transports coal through Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) A Utah mine is set to be the first in ...

Dubbed the "world's largest" steam engine, each locomotive contained 25,000-gallon tanks and could hold as much as 56,000 pounds of coal; they were designed to pull freight through the mountains ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An 80-mile railway linking the Uinta Basin to the national railroad network would open up the geologically hemmed in region to expanded markets for oil, coal, agricultural ...

It then headed toward Utah as part of a yearlong tour to commemorate the Transcontinental Railroad’s 150th anniversary. Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Big Boy is back, baby! Following five years of restoration, Union Pacific’s (UP) “Big Boy” 4014 steam locomotive made a public appearance this past weekend —departing a UP shop in Cheyenne, Wyo., ...

Their service record of pulling huge loads of freight trains across steep grades in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains and the Rockies is stellar. And records, painstakingly kept at UP, were integral to ...

Opinion: Freight rail fuels Utah’s growth, sustainability and innovation To meet our economic and environmental goals, Utah will need all its transportation systems to be robust, reliable and ...

A controversial, long-shot proposal to ship coal by freight rail up the North Coast is not dead yet. The federal body that oversees the nation’s railroad rights of way indicated this week that ...

Freight trains carrying coal pose a health risk to communities living near rail lines. (Getty) Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and ...