{"id":218989,"date":"2026-06-14T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:58:10","slug":"americas-250th-birthday-nears-big-boy-no-4014-steam-locomotive-tours-east-coast-celebration-pennsylvania-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218989\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s 250th birthday nears: Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive tours East Coast celebration | Pennsylvania News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s 250th Birthday is in less than a month, and the largest operating steam locomotive is chugging its way along the East Coast for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Big Boy No. 4014 rolled into Northern Pennsylvania Saturday as part of its tour.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators got to view it in all its glory on the Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct in Wyoming County.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry though &#8212; it will be rolling through our area early in July before it parks itself in Philadelphia for July 4th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s 250th Birthday is in less than a month, and the largest operating steam locomotive is chugging its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-218989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218989","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=218989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}