Excitement over the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 is growing in central Pennsylvania, where communities from Lebanon to Lewistown are planning watch parties and events.
The world’s largest operating steam locomotive will travel through central Pennsylvania on July 7-8 as part of its historic 23-state coast-to-coast tour.
The Big Boy’s 7,000-mile tour celebrates the nation’s 250th anniversary and marks the first time the locomotive has traveled across the Mississippi River and to the East Coast since the engines were built in the early 1940s…