If you like trains, especially old steam engines, you are in serious luck! Union Pacific’s “Big Boy #4014” is due in Osawatomie at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. It is scheduled to stop at the Main Street Grade crossing between 2:30 and 3. It will be available for viewing for 30 minutes before pulling out to Kansas City for the night. For anyone who may not know, this particular steam locomotive is the largest in the world. It is one of eight surviving of the original 25 built for Union Pacific and is the only one now operational. The other seven sit on display throughout the country. It has been completely restored and is visiting 12 states on the Union Pacific line to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. This Big Boy is 132 foot long and weighs 1.2 million pounds. It is a four-cylinder, simple articulated monster created to go around curves easily despite its bulk.
