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Donated by Union Pacific Railroad in December 1961, locomotive number 4014 was the foremost famous locomotive in RailGiants Train Museum’s impressive display of locomotives during its 52 years here. Union Pacific No. 4014 may be a Big Boy class locomotive having a 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement. They are the heaviest single expansion locomotive ever built, weighing about 1,200,000 pounds. Big Boy locomotives are hinged (or articulated) because of its great length. Its forward pony trucks and drive wheels swivel independently of the boiler and rear drivers when rounding curves. The Big Boy class was designed for transporting heavy freight trains, without assistance from helper locomotives, totally on the Wasatch Mountains between Ogden, Utah, and Green , Wyoming. In their later years of service, Big Boy’s service territory was extended east to Cheyenne. Big Boy No. 4014 was retired in 1959 after 18 years of service. Number 4014 arrived at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds on January 8, 1962.

In the summer of 2013, Union Pacific reacquired Big Boy No. 4014 to restore it as an operating steam locomotive as part of its Heritage Locomotive fleet. Big Boy No. 4014 departed RailGiants Train Museum on November 14, 2013, when it began its gradual journey across the fairgrounds parking zone . It departed the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds at 2:45 am on January 26, 2014, and arrived at Union Pacific’s West Colton facility in Bloomington, California, about 1 pm that afternoon.

Big Boy No. 4014 departed Bloomington, California, at 9:15 am on April 28, 2014, to begin its 11 days, 1250 mile journey across four states. Thousands of people watched it being towed by SD70 locomotives UP No. 4014 and UP No. 4884 and visited Big Boy No. 4014 while on public display in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and many other cities and towns along the way.

Number 4014 arrived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the afternoon of May 8, 2014. Its restoration was completed five years later. On May 4, 2019, restored Big Boy No. 4014 was christened in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and began its first tour to Ogden, Utah, to participate in Union Pacific’s celebration of the driving of the Golden Spike, which transpired 150 years before in nearby Promontory Summit. By the end of 2019, No. 4014 toured more of its new home on the Union Pacific System throughout the Upper Midwest, Southwest United States, and Southern California.

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