Bill Pickett

love music, stones ,Zeppelin. baseball. history.

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Congrats @Cardinals and Jordan Walker! 💥🤝

[Mike D. @MikeJdiVittorio]

Union Pacific’s Big Boy rolling into Leetsdale Industrial Park.

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Jordan Walker's Home Run Derby prize money was more than his annual salary 🤯💰

Secured the BAG 🔥

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Jordan Walker homered on his final six swings to win the 2026 Home Run Derby, a tremendous come-from-behind win that saw him beat hometown favorite Kyle Schwarber in front of a raucous Citizens Bank Park crowd. The format worked. The drama was tremendous. A very good Derby.

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The starting lineups for tonight's 2026 All-Star Game at 8pm ET on FOX! 🔔

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JORDAN WALKER WINS THE 2026 @TMOBILE #HRDERBY!

[Philadelphia Phillies @Phillies]

From Schwarbs to the best fans in baseball ❤️

[Joshua Neyhart @JNeyhartPA]

Oh my gosh. Big Boy and Acela. Together in Harrisburg.

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Big Boy No. 4014 is the world’s largest operating steam locomotive.

Of the eight remaining Big Boys in existence today, No. 4014 is the only one still in operation.

[Pennsylvania Governor's Office @PAGovOffice]

SPOTTED: Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 rolls through Pennsylvania’s state capital.

[Southern_Railman @SOU_railman]

Here’s a clip of Big Boy slipping twice as she made the photo runby up the curve!

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — In Virginia Lee Burton’s classic children’s book, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Mulligan often boasted that his steam shovel, Mary Anne, “could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that was true.”

By the end of the story, Mulligan never gets the chance to prove his boast because electric, diesel, and gasoline shovels have taken away nearly all of Mary Anne’s work. Still, he finds an ingenious way for the old steam shovel to remain useful.

When Burton wrote those words in her 1939 children’s classic, she was capturing the painful sunset of an era. It was a lament for the living, breathing machines of American progress, cast aside for the newest efficient technology.

For more than half a century, that sentiment seemed final. The same technological advances that displaced Mary Anne also rendered America’s steam locomotives obsolete. The machines that had helped build our cities, transported critically needed goods during World War II, and connected the nation from coast to coast were, in a remarkably short time, dumped into gravel pits, relegated to history books, or left to rust in forgotten rail yards.

But this week in Altoona, the Union Pacific Railroad’s Big Boy No. 4014 offered a thunderous rebuttal. Much of the credit belongs to its engineer, Ed Dickens, who has spent his adult life serving his country, first in the military and now by helping bring this historic steam locomotive back to life. In doing so, he has shown that Americans still value hard work, shared history, and community.

Across the country, crowds have gathered along city streets, farmland, and small-town rail lines just to watch Dickens and Big Boy thunder past. #America250 #No4014 https://t.co/E0ruILuSNL

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

Big Boy locomotive pulls into Cresson Pennsylvania! Right past our house on the Mainline!

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

UP 4014 Big Boy heads west over the Rockville Bridge just north of Harrisburg PA.

[Julia 🇺🇸 @Jules31415]

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014—the world’s largest, heaviest, and most powerful operating steam locomotive—rolled into Pottstown, Pennsylvania for a whistle stop as part of its historic cross-country journey in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

Thousands turned out in the 100°F+ temperature to catch a glimpse of the historic train—an iconic symbol of American ingenuity and industrial might.

“Big Boys” were built in Schenectady, New York by the American Locomotive Company, with 4014 the only remaining one in operation.

It’s being displayed in Philadelphia for the Fourth of July weekend. 🚂🇺🇸

[Julia 🇺🇸 @Jules31415]

Union Pacific’s Big Boy 4014 rolls into Pottstown, Pennsylvania in the pouring rain—and hundreds are waiting to greet him.

The 1.2-million-pound locomotive is headed home to Cheyenne, Wyoming as it wraps up a historic cross-country tour celebrating America’s 250th anniversary.

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Take a ride inside big boy 4014 with TribLive’s Zac Gibson!
Zac rode on big boy from Wall Pa., down to the viewing event in Leetsdale. read his first-person account on TribLive

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

TRAIN BREAK: UP 4014 Big Boy rolls through Duncannon PA just before heading up the Juniata River towards Altoona PA.

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

TRAIN BREAK: the largest steam train in the world, the UP 4014 "Big Boy", crosses the Rockville bridge, the longest stone arch bridge in the world.

An amazing sight.