Anticipation builds for Big Boy travel through city
There’s big anticipation for Big Boy. A city resident inquired about the train’s travels through Dunkirk on Tuesday. The initial article about the upcoming visit of the world’s largest operating steam locomotive to Ripley garnered hundreds of reactions and comments on social media. Big Boy will be on Norfolk Southern’s tracks next to Lucas Avenue and Doughty Street, the ones that cross Route 60 at-grade, sometime after its visit to Ripley on Tuesday. That’s according to a map of its route schedule on Union Pacific’s website. Big Boy is a Union Pacific locomotive, but its ...
