The world’s largest operating steam engine will visit northern Indiana later this year. Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 is on a coast-to-coast tour, through a partnership with Norfolk Southern.
Union Pacific spokesperson Robynn Tysver says it’s the first time the locomotive has steamed east across the Mississippi River since it was delivered in 1941. “Since it has been restored, it is one of the must-sees for railfans,” Tysver said.
The trip will include brief “whistle-stops” on June 5 in Argos and July 16 in Knox. Tysver said each whistle stop will last about 15 to 30 minutes, to give people a chance to see and hear the locomotive…