Union Pacific steam locomotive Large Boy No. 4014 leaves metropolis Aug. 12 in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Mike Simons/Tulsa Planet through AP
Valerie Schremp Hahn
St. Louis Publish-Dispatch
The world’s most important working steam locomotive will trip via the St. Louis location beginning off this weekend, and you will get a glorious have a look at it downtown on Sunday.
Union Pacific’s Important Boy No. 4014 is scheduled to roll into Poplar Bluff at 4:30 p.m. Friday. It leaves at 8 a.m. the following early morning for Scott Metropolis, Missouri, by 11:15 a.m. then Chester, Illinois.
It arrives in St. Louis at 7:45 p.m. Saturday however there will likely be no group acquire at that difficulty in time.
It will likely be on present in St. Louis from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday at Poplar and South sixteenth streets downtown, close to the St. Louis Gateway Transportation Centre, or the put together station. There, visitors can have the chance to get souvenirs and pay a go to to the Experience the Union Pacific Rail Automotive, a multimedia, wander-via sensible expertise in regards to the Massive Boy and railroading report.
The Important Boy then travels west, arriving on the put together station in Kirkwood at 9 a.m. Monday and being there proper up till 9:30 a.m.
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It continues west with stops in Pacific at 10:15 a.m., Washington at 11:30 a.m., Hermann at 1:15 p.m., and Jefferson City at 3:30 p.m.
It might make its means throughout Missouri and stops in Kansas Metropolis on Tuesday evening.
The top proper right here is element of a 10-state tour that commenced beforehand this thirty day interval in Texas and ends in Wyoming in early September.