Love the Challenger Class!
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Maybe some day we'll see a challenger riding the rails again. Sadly it doesn't seem to even be a remote priority right now for UP Steam.
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Not only is it hard to image the site of one of these operating, but I can hardly imagine what it was like to even get to Sherman Hill in 1956 with not Interstates and even fewer people in Wyoming than there is today.
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Jack took an excellent photo and you did an excellent scan of it, Chris. It is great to see such high quality material from this time period. What a dramatic scene! You can tell that gritty Challenger is really hammering. Thanks for posting.
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I saw a video where one of the UP Steam employees was saying that 3985 is "number 3 priority" right now, next to work on 4014 and 844, but she definitely will run again. So patience, folks. But I doubt that we'll ever see something quite this dramatic again.
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