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Jul 20, 2021 · Find out why Houston is on TIME’s 2021 list of the World’s 100 Greatest Places.
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Jun 11, 2021 · Houston was one of the biggest movers up the ranking of The Economist’s 2021 Livability Index in the last six months. This year’s report took into account the disruption caused by the pandemic as it examined 140 cities worldwide.
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After leaving the steam shop in Cheyenne on August 4th, Big Boy 4014 made two brief whistle stops in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming and in Kimball, Nebraska – then arrived in Sidney, Nebraska. One notable thing about the Big Boy 4014 stop at Sidney was the opportunity for photos with the railfans as the crew buttoned up 4014 for the night at the yard there. ...
Big Boy spent 2 nights on KC, with crowds welcoming the engine and then gathering all day on Tuesday. As always, it was clear that some on the crowd had never seen such a huge locomotive – or any steam locomotive. Groups of kids, either on a school trip or from a summer camp, could be seen marveling at 4014. Heading south out of Kansas City, 4014’s...
Next stop, the Sooner State! Oklahoma saw 4014 in 2019, and now again in 2021. With quick “whistle stops” all through Oklahoma, there were some lucky folks who were able to hitch a ride in the matching set of Armour Yellow passenger cars behind Big Boy 4014. After an overnight stay in McAlester, the train made two additional stops in Oklahoma in be...
Big Boy 4014 arrived in Fort Worth on Friday, August 13 for the weekend. Thousands turned up each day. Local author and columnist Mike Nicholssaid 4014’s arrival was as if “an iron Elvis” had come to town. Nichols says the day he went to see 4014, he had to park 16 blocks away. Hundreds of people came out each day to see the steam locomotive. After...
The Huey Long Bridge over the Mississippi is always an impressive sight, made more so with a huge steam locomotive crawling up and through the bridge. It was a historic moment, being the first time any Big Boy had crossed the bridge, indeed had entered New Orleans. A New Orleans heat wave kept some away, but 73-year-old Jay Mellon of New Orleans to...
Heading to another big Union Pacific home base, North Little Rock, 4014 made short whistle stops in Texarkana, Hope, Gurdon, Arkadelphia, Malvern, Bald Knob, Tuckerman, and Walnut Ridge with an overnight stop in Prescott. When Big Boy 4014 rumbled into North Little Rock, the sense of history was striking, here was an 80 year old locomotive – at the...
Could Union Pacific’s brief detour into the Land of Lincoln have just been for the dramatic entrance into St. Louis? If so… mission accomplished. While in St. Louis 4014 visited Big Boy 4006, a static display at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. Running across Missouri, we find ourselves where we began this article, with Ralph Hughes in Po...
Dec 8, 2022 · A new report is reinforcing why Houston is a great global city after it ranked No. 42 globally, beating Dallas and Austin, and ranked No. 1 in Texas.
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Sunday, Oct. 6: Houston, Texas. Thursday/Friday, Oct. 10-11: Fort Worth, Texas. Additional route details with additional whistle stops, display locations and times will be shared closer to the tour. In all, Big Boy No. 4014 will visit 14 states in 2024, including five states during this summer's "Westward Bound" tour from Wyoming to California.
