One of Union Pacific's popular steam engines will visit Missouri's Capital City next month as it tours the country.
The Big Boy No. 4014 is scheduled to depart Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 5, traveling through Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming.
The Big Boy is scheduled to arrive in the Show-Me State on Aug. 28 at Union Station in St. Louis. It will be on public display there from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 29.
The engine and its train will depart at 8 a.m. Aug. 30 and make its way west, taking the route the Amtrak Missouri River Runner trains take across the state and making approximately half-hour stops at the same stops the Amtrak trains use.
With that schedule, the Big Boy would arrive in Jefferson City around 3:15 p.m. Aug. 30.
Railroad officials said they plan to park the train at the end of Missouri Boulevard, where it will stay overnight.
The train is scheduled to depart at 8 a.m. Aug. 31 and continue west. It will stop in California from 9-9:30 a.m. before heading toward Sedalia and points farther west. The train will end up at Union Station in Kansas City and be on public display there all day Sept. 1.
A complete list of overnight and whistle stops is available at upsteam.com.
Big Boy No. 4014 was one of 25 such engines to be built.
It was restored to operational shape by Union Pacific, then placed in excursion service in May 2019 at its new home in Cheyenne as the largest, heaviest and most powerful operational steam locomotive in the world.
This is the first tour since the locomotive was restored for 2019's "Great Race" tours celebrating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad's completion.