Union Pacific’s Big Boy in the Keystone State

UP 4014 Big Boy 4-8-8-4 leads NS 061 east over Elk Creek Viaduct near Girard, PA

I have been trackside for a lot of things over the years, but I have never seen anything quite like the last two months. Union Pacific “Big Boy” 4014 came east for the first time in the locomotive’s history, and everywhere it went, the crowds came. Not just railfan crowds, “everyone” crowds. Families staking out […]