{"id":15673,"date":"2024-09-05T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15673"},"modified":"2024-09-04T23:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T04:03:11","slug":"big-boy-train-coming-through-eastern-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/big-boy-train-coming-through-eastern-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Big Boy&#8217; train coming through eastern Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Pacific&#8217;s No. 4014, the &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; steam locomotive, is passing through Iowa on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.com\/heritage\/steam\/schedule\/index.htm\">&#8220;Heartland of America&#8221; tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are two remaining stops for public view, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2024\/09\/05\/big-boy-steam-train-roll-through-eastern-iowa\/\">Belle Plaine at noon today<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wqad.com\/article\/news\/local\/the-current\/big-boy-locomotive-steam-engine-train-largest-world-stops-grand-mound-sterling\/526-730bc21e-269f-4ed1-a4c1-a05da816c6e5\">Grand Mound at 11 AM tomorrow<\/a>. However, each stop only lasts 15 minutes! No one can get ON the train, just admire its bigness from 25 feet away, per UP rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2024\/07\/19\/our-town-belle-plaine-train-depot\/\">KCRG had a feature<\/a> on Belle Plaine&#8217;s still-standing-but-not-restored train depot six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>(KCRG and all Gray stations have autoplay video but if you scroll past the video, then try to come back up, <em>the video disappears but the sound keeps playing<\/em>. What&#8217;s up with that?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Pacific&#8217;s No. 4014, the &#8220;Big Boy&#8221; steam locomotive, is passing through Iowa on a &#8220;Heartland of America&#8221; tour. There are two remaining stops for public view, at Belle Plaine at noon today and Grand Mound at 11 AM &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/big-boy-train-coming-through-eastern-iowa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15674,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15673\/revisions\/15674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}