{"id":219929,"date":"2026-06-15T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219929\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:47:10","slug":"big-boy-locomotive-only-one-stop-away-from-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/219929\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Boy locomotive only one stop away from Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, Pa. &#8211; The world&#8217;s largest steam locomotive is in Scranton ahead of a stop in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The Union Pacific&#8217;s Big Boy is at the Steamtown National Historic Site until the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s set to make whistle stops in Muhlenberg Township and Pottstown, Montgomery County on July 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be at the Reading and Northern Outer Station from 2:15 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. then the Pottstown Train Station from 4:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The tour pays homage to the role railroads played in building America.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Big Boy\u2019s schedule, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/about-us\/history\/steam\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Boy No. 4014\u2019s Schedule | Union Pacific<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, Pa. &#8211; The world&#8217;s largest steam locomotive is in Scranton ahead of a stop in Berks County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,72376,973,15794,24603,95834,128,130,129,80321,9019,95835,43578],"class_list":["post-219929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-big-boy","tag-muhlenberg-township","tag-pottstown","tag-railroad","tag-reading-and-northern-outer-station","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-steam-locomotive","tag-steamtown-national-historic-site","tag-train-tour","tag-union-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219929","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=219929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}