City to transport visitors from downtown parking lot to train park for viewing.
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BY ANDREW HEISERMAN
Staff Writer
ROCHELLE – Union Pacific Railroad is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad with a cross-country tour for one of its original steam engines— the Big Boy No 4014— which will be traveling through Rochelle.
The model is one of 25 original Big Boy steam engines that were built exclusively for the Union Pacific Railroad. The steam engine will be making a transcontinental tour and plans to stop at the Rochelle Railroad Park on Tuesday, July 30 between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m.
The extreme flooding out west threatened to delay the arrival of the steam engine, but UP crews have kept everything on schedule at this point.