Union Pacific # 3985 westbound HighBall to Wyoming

[planejunky]

Awesome!

[Trainguyxx]

That, my friend, is what makes me proud to be anamerican XD

oh and also, i was wondering if anyone kew wat the top speed of the challenger is fully loaded, or just normally loaded, whichever. My friend is drivng it in a simulator with cars and it's going 70 mph

[MovieModerator]

@Trainguyxx I believe it is 72.5 milers per hour, but I'm not sure.

[thediremoose]

@Trainguyxx According to UP, 70 mph.

[train2589]

@Trainguyxx The top speed of the 3985 is 72 mph and going downhill it can go 75-78 mph.

[hootinouts]

Ah, nothing like seeing a nice thick plume of black sooty coal smoke blasting out of the stack of an old iron workhorse once in a while. I hope Al Gore is watching and shits his pants.

[hihat101]

in my opinion UP844 & UP 3985 , are two of America's finest steam locomotives left in preservation, obviously its a huge chunk of change when then run these, coal proved too exspensive in the 50's hence oil fuel, i have a big boy on Trainz 2004 pc sim,,

[Xantec]

also could you imagine having to shovel stoke one of those puppies at 70mph across the iowa and nebraska flatlands?

[BIGT6851]

hey skipw do you think that the 3985 will ezer come to georgia?

[josecarlosfarina]

very good. note 1.000. The best,

you see my videos (movies) for trains?

very spped, very smoking.

[toscael]

Excelente video!!!!! 5** buena persecucion!!

[shannonO125]

I wonder if the coal can be replace with propane? Will it work?

[micahthatrocks]

sorry buddy. this beast runs off of oil. and no. propane wont work. not strong enough.

[DeltaPhi79]

This is a stupid comment, but I wonder what would happen if they used jet fuel.

[heatherandpaul2]

Calm down. I know jet fuel has the word "JET" in it and it sound so cool, but jet fuel is pretty much only Kerosene. Yup, same stuff used to fuel old lanterns. Some of these newer engines used oil. Your question is the same as asking, "What if you put gas in a deisel engine?" It wont work.

[DeltaPhi79]

Calm down? I asked out of curiosity lol.

[heatherandpaul2]

Ha sorry. my bad

[DeltaPhi79]

LOL cuz maybe burning it could be too hot and it would melt the firebox or whatever or the engine would explode if it was too much XD

[micahthatrocks]

uhhhh no its not...and also that won't work.

[DanielVolker]

How do we know? To my knowledge, that hasn't been tried. The Grand Canton engines used regular diesel with very impressive results.

[heatherandpaul2]

Most ideas look good on paper for all the tree huggers to waste their money on. (like the Toyota Prius) Yes propane is cleaner and more efficient than coal. HOWEVER, You only get about 2% propane for every 50 gallons of oil from the rag heads. Whereas 50 gallons of oil is 50 gallons of oil for an oil burning engine. Same goes with Coal. So Oil and coal is MUCH more efficient. Sorry tree huggers, black smoke is better thank batteries.

[GottJukrapun]

Who cares about [cleaner] burning fuel. No one complain about volcano erupting. My concern is $ per mile. Propane is cheaper and NO, we don't need no raghead to get propane. Keep $ within the free world and none to the raghead!

[steamingpoopfart]

it uses used motor oil as fuel

[DDELE7]

these monsters will run the rails forever. I love this video!

Makes me wonder what a modern Steam loco would look like.

[micahthatrocks]

they really should have left it coal burning.

[nickwa165wa165]

coal fired or oil?

[SkipW]

Its an Oil Burner - #5 fuel oil recycled, or something like that

[train2589]

@SkipW the 3985 and 844 both run off of #5 fuel oil that is recycled from the eveygrowing fleet of diesel locomotives.

[operazanotaijin]

I hope it'll come back through Salt Lake again some time. We miss it! :(

[Westbound70]

All of us railfans owe a big debt of gratitude to The Union Pacific for keeping this and their other historical equipment running.

UNION PACIFIC: "WE CAN HANDLE IT"

[PotholesInMyLawn]

@Westbound70 I get the feeling that UP is run by train fans!!

[zephyr2141]

awesome chasing!

[Conductor261]

Yeah wouldnt it be a site to have the Milwaukee Road 261 doublehead with the Challenger? I would LOVE to see that!!!

[hoolg]

Georgious girl. I can't wait until they get her back out of the shop.