Today we celebrated "BigBoy"'s arrival in NE Pennsylvania. Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 No. 4014 is the largest operating steam locomotive in the World. She'll be here at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA for the next couple weeks, receiving maintenance. Steamtown has one of the very few steam locomotive maintenance shops left in the United States. 🙂

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SBB Lokomotive Re 4/4 II 11295 ( Hersteller SLM Nr. 4941)

For those who like that sort of thing.

Built 1974.

#rail #locomotive

call aggravating
yes we are still phoning it in, 15 years later

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It's back to the @bluebell_railway for their Road Meets Rail event last month. Featuring three great steam locomotives, and a whole host of steam-powered road traction and industry.

#steam #steamlocomotive #locomotive #heritagerailway #railwaysofbritain

http://creativesplurges.com/2026/06/12/bluebell-railway-road-meets-rail-2026/

Did you know our artistic director and founder has been a huge train fan all his life? (His actual first words ever were "choo-choo"!)

Yesterday, he caught the historic Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, as it passed through the campus of our troupe's alma mater, Case Western Reserve University, on its journey to the East Coast as part of the United States 250th birthday. The return trip brings it back through Ohio next month, passing through Cleveland again on Monday, July 13 with a bigger event in Fostoria, OH the next day.

But we're hoping to catch Big Boy's stop in Struthers, OH on July 12 on the way to a storage locker run to prep for our upcoming shows at Pennsic later that month!

#BigBoy #BigBoy4014 #Train #SteamLocomotive #Locomotive #Up4014 #SteamTrain #Trainspotting #CWRU #CaseWesternReserveUniversity #UniversityCircle #RailFan