When labor disputes disrupted operations at Canada’s two largest railroads and ports up and down the East Coast, many ...

Union Pacific and the L.A./Long Beach ports in southern California handled the surge without significant delays in how ...

When the Union Pacific Railroad wanted to increase their freight-hauling ... Once the final design was complete, 25 of these new locomotives, known as “Big Boys” were manufactured and put to work.

Steam engine weighs more than a million pounds Twenty-five Big Boys were built exclusively for Union Pacific Railroad, the first of which was delivered in 1941. Big Boy No. 4014 was delivered to Union ...

Inside a spartan warehouse the size of 10 football fields, the loud hum of plastic pellet packaging machinery may as well be ...

IN TEXAS ABOARD UNION PACIFIC’S BIG BOY TRAIN — Jim Vena wants you to have a kolache. In fact, the chief executive of Union Pacific, the largest U.S. railroad ... giants were built by the ...

Only 25 of this kind of train were built and this is the last one still running. Dominick Williams [email protected] A train technician performs maintenance on Union Pacific’s Big Boy in ...

On Tuesday, residents of Osawatomie, Kansas, took a walk through their town history with the 30-minute stop of Union Pacific's Big Boy No ... the Osawatomie railroad offices were locked for ...

Twenty-five Big Boy locomotives were built for Union Pacific, No. 4014 is the world’s only functioning Big Boy. Eight Big Boys remain throughout the United States. Big Boy No. 4005 is on display ...

Union Pacific ... ships were unloaded. “That’s a big jump at one time. It really is,” CEO Jim Vena said in an interview. “And I think it shows the way we are managing the railroad that ...

FILE - The Los Angeles skyline is seen above the Union Pacific ... chain did a great job,” Vena said. The other major Western railroad, BNSF, would likely also have seen a big jump in shipments ...