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Could UP’s Big Boy and CP 4-6-4 No. 2816 appear together under steam?

 

By Bill Stephens | May 2, 2024

 

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena says he’d love to see it happen

 

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 rounds a curve on the Yoder Subdivision between Egbert and Albin, Wyo., on June 7, the first day of the 2023 Home Run Express. Kevin Gilliam

 

CHICAGO — Imagine if the two Class I railroad steam stars of this year — Canadian Pacific 4-6-4 No. 2816 and Union Pacific Big Boy 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 — showed up at the same place at the same time and shared the same stage.

 

It just might happen one day.

 

Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena on Wednesday told a shipper conference that he’d like to see both steam locomotives appear together.

 

CP 2816 and the Final Spike Steam Tour train are captured south of Pasqua, Saskatchewan, on April 29, 2024. CPKC has added a new stop to the tour in Winnipeg on June 30. Andrew Meinzer

 

 

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