ABOARD THE BIG BOY — From ATVs in fields to cars on roads and from a scissor lift next to industrial buildings, throngs of people waved and cheered Saturday as the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 rumbled across part of northwest Ohio.
To the extent he could, engineer Ed Dickens waved or whistled back. He even made an unannounced stop at a rural crossing in Hancock County, where a group of antique steam threshers had brought their own steam engines to watch the largest one in the world go by…