UP Challenger 3985 Runby
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What a runby! =)
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She's prity.
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ok i am seeing people say this engine is better and this one is better but the thing about steam were each railroad pretty much had the engines built for there needs and in pulling power it would be the allegheny but the 2-6-6-4 N&W engines hold the most recoreds out of any engine. they could pull the same that the big boys could at 25 miles an hour and weights alot less roanoke shops i believe made the best they did more with less. just my thought on this
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i know of three challengrs here in the usa one is in duluth mn, secund is in two harbors mn under a shelter and the third is in proctor mn
thee one in duluth has been lifted iff the rails and has a 70 horse power electric motor operating the wheels and that in itself. also in duluth museum called the depot they even have a cab forward articulated 4-6-6-4 sitting there looking like it could be fired up and ready to pull a load
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No matter how many times you watch 3985 in action, it's an amazing locomotive.
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@sheka216 There's just one steamlocomotive left in the world with that wheel ararngement!
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whats even more fun is when you get to set in the cab of a 2-6-6-4 mallet
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@OwlEye2010 3985's whistle, as well as 844's and the Big Boys, is locoated imediately behind the smoke stack. And the reason that you usually don't see steam from 3985's whistle is because the whistle is blown on superheated steam. (same thing with 844 and, back then, the Big Boys)
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Very nice loco. Thumbs up! :)
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I saw the Challenger last year as it stopped at a local town in my area. I talked to the maintenance guys greasing it with an air grease gun (that thing was loud as hell) and they told me they had to stop every 100 miles to grease her. They also have a full machine shop in one of the cars that I looked in and it looked like 2 machinists in the railcar.
BadWolf762 2 years ago 7
probably the most beautiful steamer ever built!!!
They need to get a big boy running now too!
mjc6184 2 years ago 6