Union Pacific Challenger 3985 sits on a curve after having done a photo runby at Perkins on Sherman Hill. The October snow for the excursion to Laramie was a nice bonus.

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 hustles through the snowfall while running light to Speer. The locomotive is to take over the excursion to Laramie that has been brought up from Denver by EMD DD40X C... (more)

Snow is falling on Saturday morning as Challenger 3985 is readied for an excursion from Denver to Laramie and return.

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 sits next to the shop buildings on the day before an excursion to Laramie, WY and return.

Union Pacific steam 4-6-6-4 'Challenger' No. 3985 waits patiently on the Lynndyl Sub main while an eastbound manifest freight heads into the siding at Boulter on August 2, 2000. UP 3985 was travel... (more)

Union Pacific steam 4-6-6-4 'Challenger' No. 3985 leads a seven car passenger special through Lake Point on an extraordinarily smoky August 2, 2000 afternoon. The train was traveling from Cheyenne... (more)

It's a brisk morning as the Challenger is between Inkom and McCammon, Idaho. The condition's are perfect for optimal steam, for the train that had spend the previous night in Pocatello, Idaho.

CHEYENNE WY Oct-Nov 1971 -- Challenger 3985 patiently awaits restoration. I had no idea at the time this locomotive would once again run under steam.

Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger No. 3985 is westbound east of Lodgepole, Nebraska, on October 9, 2008, on the last day of a long road trip and is heading home to Cheyenne. The many miles of “we... (more)

I'm singing in the rain..... It's pouring rain as UP 3985 nears Tuscola, IL with a NRHS excursion in the Summer of 1993.

As part of the Denver, Colorado – Laramie, Wyoming excursion, UP Challenger 3985 posed for roster shots at Lynch, Wyoming, on May 26, 1985. Although countless superlatives have been applied to ... (more)

UP Challenger 3985 executes a photo runby at Lynch, Wyoming, on May 26, 1985.

Union Pacific 3985 is southbound out of Salt Lake City, heading to Provo. This is the trip in which the coal fired Challenger set many brush fires on the two days of excursions between the two ci... (more)

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Nothing brings out a multitude of railfans like a steam engine! As a Union Pacific passenger special, pulled by Challenger 3985 and the UP's trio of E9s, climbs... (more)

On the second day of excursions with Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985, the big Challenger envelops its train with coal smoke (yes, it was still coal fired at this time) as it passes the USS Geneva Work ... (more)