Thousands of people lined railroad tracks all through Jefferson County to get a view of Big Boy No. 4014, which made a half-hour stop at the Commercial Street crossing in De Soto on Sept. 12.
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Local representatives and community leaders take a picture with members of the Union Pacific’s Big Boy locomotive team in downtown De Soto.
The Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 begins to roll out of De Soto as an estimated 10,000 people, who traveled from across the country, watch the locomotive continue its journey south.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 rolls into De Soto.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 rolls into De Soto.
Union Pacific Engineer, Ed Dickens, brings the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 to a stop in the heart of downtown De Soto.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 stops in the heart of De Soto.
Union Pacific workers provide maintenance on the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 upon its stop in De Soto.
People traveled from all over the country to catch a glimpse of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive.
The front of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive.
Union Pacific Engineer, Ed Dickens, drives the Union Pacific 4014 out of De Soto.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive makes its way out of De Soto.
Onlookers use their cell phones to capture images of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive and the train cars it was pulling through De Soto.
Onlookers use their cell phones to capture images of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive and the train cars it was pulling through De Soto
John Roussin of De Soto attended the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive visit to De Soto in his Civil War reenactor uniform.
Heath Elliston, 3, and Mallory Elliston of Imperial make their way to De Soto’s Main St. to catch a glimpse of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive.
From left, Vivian Schwalbert, 3,, Henry Henderson, 3, and Reghan Richardson, 3, from Imperial look forward to the arrival of the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive
Greg Hardy and Ed Becker of Charlotte, S.C., took a couple of days to catch the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 across the mid-west.
Xander Ransom, 3, and Hazel Ransom, 7, both from De Soto, look forward to seeing and hearing the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive arrive in town.
Over twenty-thousand people traveled from across the country to catch a glimpse of the Union Pacific Big Boy.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive in downtown De Soto.
The Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 locomotive begins its continuing journey across the mid-west as it leaves De Soto.
Map of the Big Boy Heartland of America Tour.
