While it’s still unknown which cities the historical locomotive will make official stops, Big Boy No. 4014 will at least pass through Arkansas during its eight-week Heartland of America Tour through nine states.
Union Pacific’s legendary steam locomotive — the world’s largest of its kind built to conquer mountains and still in operation — will depart June 30, 2024, from its home base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for a Westward Bound Tour that will visit five states in the West, reaching California before returning to Cheyenne.
The 1.1-million-pound marvel will depart Cheyenne again on Aug. 29 and travel through (in alphabetical order) Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
It will travel through Arkansas sometime before it arrives in Houston on Oct. 6; it leaves Chicago in late September.
Big Boy made Arkadelphia part of its tour in August 2021, the stop drawing a sizable crowd of spectators and groups of school children to the train depot in Arkadelphia.
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Additional route details with additional whistle stops, display locations and times will be shared closer to the tour, UP said on its website.
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