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Union Pacific plans major Big Boy tour in 2024

 

By Trains Staff | November 2, 2023 | Last updated on February 2, 2024

 

Steam locomotive will visit ‘four corners’ of 23-state system

 

OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific will send Big Boy No. 4014 on a “Four Corners” tour of its system in 2024, the railroad announced today, including stops in Oregon, California, Texas, and Illinois.

 

“As we move forward at Union Pacific, we remember where we came from; the Big Boy represents the history of Union Pacific and the United States,” Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena said in a message to UP’s “Steam Club,” which receives first notification of plans for the 4-8-8-4. “When No. 4014 comes to town, we will celebrate with the communities where we operate, our employees and their families. Together, we will marvel at how far technology has brought us.”

 

Anticipated stops include Chicago; Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston; Salt Lake City; Portland, Ore; Nampa, Idaho; and Roseville, Calif. A schedule and route information will be announced next year, and the railroad plans events for employees and their families in addition to public stops.

 

In an interview last month [see “The Trains Interview: Union Pacific CEO Jim Vena …,” Oct. 19, 2023], Vena had indicated he planned to use the Big Boy more.

 

 

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Big Boy’s ‘Westward Bound Tour’ to begin June 30

 

By Trains Staff | April 10, 2024

 

 

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Evolving plans for this year’s tour by Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 now call for the locomotive to make what the railroad is calling its “Westward Bound Tour” beginning Sunday, June 30, traveling to Roseville, Calif., and returning to its home base in Cheyenne by the end of July.

 

At this point, just two sets of dates for public displays are set: July 12-13 in Roseville, and July 20-21 in Ogden, Utah. Other route details will be announced as the tour approaches.

 

Initial plans had called for the trip to include visits to Portland, Ore., and Boise, Idaho, but the railroad says in its latest update that “we determined that the network capacity on our northern corridor could not accommodate Big Boy No. 4014 along with anticipated demand on a single track.”

 

 

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World's largest steam engine 'Big Boy No. 4014' coming to Utah in July

 

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Union Pacific is bringing its famous Big Boy No. 4014 — the world's largest operating steam locomotive —back to Utah for the first time in five years.

 

Big Boy will be taking its Westbound Tour beginning in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on June 30.  . . .

 

 

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