When Big Boy Came Through Marysville

There are machines you understand by reading about them, and there are machines that make reading feel beside the point. Big Boy is the second kind. Union Pacific brought Big Boy No. 4014 through Marysville on April 9, 2026, during its America 250 coast-to-coast steam tour. The public schedule had the stop at the 7th Street crossing from 3:30 to 3:45 p.m. 1 That is the sort of sentence a calendar…