FORT WORTH – Union Pacific Railroad’s famed Big Boy locomotive made a stop in North Texas Thursday morning.
Big Boy No. 4014’s Heartland of America Tour included a stop at Fort Worth’s T&P Station in downtown.
North Texans are able to see the locomotive for themselves Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is free.
Big Boy made several “whistle-stops” in Texas on its tour, including Hearne, Navasota, Hempstead, Houston, Spring, Marlin and West.
Big Boy’s tour began Aug. 28 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and continued across nine additional states: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. The eight-week tour concludes later this month.
A total of 25 Big Boy locomotives were built for Union Pacific, the first being delivered in 1941, according to the company.
There are seven Big Boys on public display in various cities around the country, including Dallas. Six others can be found in St. Louis, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; Denver, Colorado; Scranton, Pennsylvania; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Cheyenne, Wyoming.