Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014 after two years of restoration, traveled the rails through Wisconsin today as part of the celebration the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion.
Big Boy weighs 1.2 million pounds and has a water capacity of 24,000 gallons. Because of its great length of 132 feet, the frame of the Big Boy is “hinged,” or articulated, to allow it to negotiate curves.
Big Boy No. 4014
Watch Big Boy rolling by on the rails.