Cheektowaga, N.Y. (WBEN) – Want a hint at just how popular Union Pacific’s Big Boy steam-powered locomotive has become.
Thousands descended on Ripley, a tiny Chautauqua County town, to see the World War II-era locomotive pull into the center of the town.
Then, Wednesday morning – the second day of Big Boy’s three-day Western New York sojourn – thousands more lined up in the Walden Galleria’s parking lot to take a shuttle to the nearby Bison Yards, where Big Boy will remain through Thursday morning…