Cheyenne, Wyo. • It’s longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain.
The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration shop in Cheyenne over the weekend for a big debut after five years of restoration. It then headed toward Ogden for a Thursday celebration, part of its yearlong tour to commemorate the transcontinental railroad’s 150th anniversary.
Big Boys hauled freight between Wyoming and Utah in the 1940s and 1950s.