{"id":179859,"date":"2026-04-30T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:28:30","slug":"big-boy-no-4014-locomotive-coming-to-pennsylvania-america-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179859\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boy No. 4014 Locomotive Coming to Pennsylvania | America 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Big Boy 4014 Locomotive to Stop in Buffalo, Scranton on Journey to Philadelphia for America250\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest operating steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014 will make its way to the East Coast for the first time as part of the America250 celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The locomotive will be part of a celebration in Philadelphia, major display events throughout eight cities, and more than 50 whistle-stops in 10 different states including Indiana, Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to see this big train in action? Check below for dates within Pennsylvania:<\/p>\n<p>June 9 \u2013 North East<\/p>\n<p>June 13 \u2013 Nicholson<\/p>\n<p>June 17-30 \u2013 Scranton, Steamtown National Historic Site, locomotive maintenance (park admission required)<\/p>\n<p>July 2 \u2013 Reading, Pottstown<\/p>\n<p>July 7 \u2013 Lebanon<\/p>\n<p>July 8 \u2013 Lewistown, Altoona<\/p>\n<p>July 11 \u2013 Cresson, Leetsdale, Historic Horseshoe Curve; ticketed event.<\/p>\n<p>More information about this locomotive can be on the Erie News Now website:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.erienewsnow.com\/news\/local\/the-last-word-lake-shore-railroad-fans-waiting-for-big-boy-locomotive\/article_287c800f-8370-4ac0-b9f3-c21f5a5bc05c.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> The Last Word: Lake Shore Railroad Fans Waiting for Big Boy Locomotive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s largest operating steam locomotive, Big Boy No. 4014 will make its way to the East Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8120,80320,80322,28,30,29,24603,80321],"class_list":["post-179859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-america250","tag-big-boy-no-4014","tag-historic-train","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-railroad","tag-steam-locomotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}