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Union Pacific, Wabtec sign $1.2 billion deal for locomotive modernizations

PITTSBURGH — Union Pacific and Wabtec have signed a $1.2 billion agreement to modernize UP AC4400 locomotives, which Wabtec ...
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Three superlative Union Pacific steam locomotives

No railroad was better equipped to shoulder the heavy burden of wartime traffic thanks to the three types of Union Pacific steam locomotives that constituted its front line of defense: the 4-6-6-4 ...
Houston Chronicle

Union Pacific's rolling history lesson, the Big Boy, rumbling back into Houston

It is just a machine — one from a bygone era — built to accomplish something newer locomotives can achieve with far more efficiency. To Ed Dickens and the throngs who will gather along Houston area ...
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Big Boy is coming to Houston: World's largest steam locomotive will make its way through the Bayou City

HOUSTON — Big Boy is coming to Houston. The world's largest operating steam locomotive - Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014-has rolled into Houston. It will be in the Bayou City on Oct. 6 through Oct. 7 ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Union Pacific turns 150; Wyoming-based steam engine stars

With gasps of steam and the clack of wheels, a Wyoming-based steam locomotive will soon start the next leg of a journey to celebrate the 150th birthday of the Union Pacific railroad. Over the past ...