Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday to watch the world’s largest operating steam locomotive roll through Pennsylvania for the first time as part of a coast-to-coast tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.
The Lake Shore Railway Museum in North East, Erie County, said more than 4,250 people showed up at its property on Tuesday to see the legendary Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014, and about 1,000 more people gathered near the tracks.
Described as the “Elvis Presley” of steam locomotives, Big Boy is making its first trip across the Mississippi River and into the Ohio Valley for the first time since it was built in Schenectady, New York, and delivered to Union Pacific Railroad in 1941…