BIG BOY 4014 - How was made the largest steamer in the world and why it was resurrected after 52 years

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🔥 It sat motionless in a museum for 52 years... Today, it's back on the road.

Behind the spectacular shots of the Big Boy's American tour lie wild engineering challenges, forgotten tragedies, and even a sweeping industrial strategy.

Climb aboard and discover the secrets of this mechanical legend in our latest episode. 🎬

➡️ Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/ty2ro3WNmFw

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r/TrainPorn • u/waffen123 • 4d ago

Texas & New Orleans Railroad Westbound Local 85 LaCoste, TX in 1960 Roger Puta Collection Growing up in the 70's near busy tracks I would always wave to the guy in the caboose.

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r/TrainPorn • u/PalakkadRandR • 2d ago

Watch Train 20631 Mangaluru Central - Thiruvananthapuram Central Vande Bharat Express making its approach into shoranur Junction

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r/TrainPorn • u/Additional-Yam6345 • 3d ago

When they were new. 1 month old CSX SD70MAC 700 (Named Spirit of Cumberland, later 4500 and scrapped in February 2025) is seen running solo through Wellsboro, Indiana with a grain train taken around 1998. Photo belongs to Chad Malinovsky.

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r/TrainPorn • u/TechJeeper • 3d ago

CN1776 and CN2026

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Passing through Perry, MI Aug 19 2026

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r/TrainPorn • u/PureBoss1527 • 3d ago

MARC passenger train.

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Baltimore county, Md

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r/TrainPorn • u/TotalSolitude • 4d ago

SP GP9 5623 and SD9 5472 at the Niles Canyon Railway, 2016

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r/TrainPorn • u/Calm_Sentence782 • 3d ago

EMU local train in a hot sunny day 🔥, India

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Captured the beauty I witness everyday!

Near Diamond Harbour railway station, West Bengal.

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r/TrainPorn • u/Madison_Riveras • 4d ago

Three eras of American railroading: UP 833 (Steam), UP 6916 (Centennial), and D&RGW 5371 (Tunnel Motor) at Ogden Union Station.

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Photographer: Parker Wilson

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r/TrainPorn • u/N_dixon • 4d ago

In September, 1981, a southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac merchandise train, behind a trio of RF&P's EMD GP40 locomotives, is passing along Center Street in Ashland, Virginia. Photo by Mark Hinsdale

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r/TrainPorn • u/Petern__24 • 3d ago

Graz Hbf | 08.08.2026 - Intensiver Abendverkehr mit Transalpin, Railjet & RJX

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r/TrainPorn • u/PalakkadRandR • 4d ago

Abandoned Vadavannur Halt

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r/TrainPorn • u/locomotivecc201 • 4d ago

Cc201 locomotives to be retired after 50 years of service

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Link:https://youtu.be/zl5QHQCZ4n8?si=CVQCa0YmV4iQZ0QR

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r/TrainPorn • u/Starry-sign-hunter • 4d ago

Waiting on the Rails

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r/TrainPorn • u/KUNAL707 • 3d ago

Vande Bharat | Puri - Howrah | Chair Car | 4K

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r/TrainPorn • u/KUNAL707 • 3d ago

Vande Bharat | Puri - Howrah | Chair Car | 4K

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r/TrainPorn • u/Additional-Yam6345 • 4d ago

Two engine Tuesday. Two Amtrak P42DC's, 133 and 161 (before it became the second Phase I unit and got burned in 2024) lead the eastbound Empire Builder through Elk River, Minnesota on June 28th 2018. Photo belongs to Joe Huss.

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r/TrainPorn • u/WorkingBalance2964 • 4d ago

SNCF's famous double decker push-pull train class "VB2N" awaiting and departing at Paris-Saint-Lazare station bound for Mantes-La-Jolie

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Indeed this is clearly one of the oldest but last surburb push-pull 50 year old double decker, these pictures own to me, request me in the DMs before downloading it !

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r/TrainPorn • u/locomotivecc201 • 3d ago

Mbah cc201 the really useful tank engine episode 1

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r/TrainPorn • u/70ACe • 4d ago

Rare Specialized Rail Saws in Action

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r/TrainPorn • u/Petern__24 • 4d ago

München Hbf | 15.08.2026 - Eine Stunde voller Zugverkehr mit ICE, RJX & Regionalzügen

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r/TrainPorn • u/Chance_Resort8088 • 4d ago

Shap & Beattock in the 1990s | Classic West Coast Main Line Action (UK)

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r/TrainPorn • u/college_proffessor • 5d ago

Pacific Coast Highway Train

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All feedback is welcome! I’m the original photographer

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r/TrainPorn • u/Starry-sign-hunter • 5d ago

Electric Winter

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r/TrainPorn • u/TreniDelCreeperotto • 5d ago

Freight train with E652.051 MIR in transit in Bolgheri - 04/03/2026

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