{"id":228525,"date":"2026-06-26T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228525\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:52:10","slug":"big-boy-to-make-first-trip-through-berks-county-next-week-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228525\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Boy&#8217; to make first trip through Berks County next week | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 Next week, the world\u2019s largest operating steam train locomotive will make its first of two trips through Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/about-us\/history\/steam\/big-boy-4014\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Union Pacific \u201cBig Boy\u201d<\/a> is expected to journey through Berks County between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, with a stop planned at the train station in Muhlenberg Township. It will then continue to Pottstown and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The train will go through Berks again on the morning of Tuesday, July 7, when it rolls through Reading, Wyomissing and the Sinking Spring area, as it moves to its stop in Lebanon County.<\/p>\n<p>The trip marks America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. \u2013 Next week, the world\u2019s largest operating steam train locomotive will make its first of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[74951,72376,973,128,130,129,80321,43578],"class_list":["post-228525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-america-250th-anniversary","tag-big-boy","tag-muhlenberg-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-steam-locomotive","tag-union-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228525","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=228525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}