CHEYENNE – The Union Pacific steam crew has been busy preparing the Challenger No. 3985, along with the TTT-6 steam locomotive No. 5511 and Centennial diesel locomotive No. 6936, for delivery to ...

It was one of 100 Challenger Class locomotives built for the Union Pacific by the American Locomotive Company in Schenectady, N.Y. It had a job to do, keeping American servicemen overseas supplied ...

When the train towing No. 3985 stops in the Canteen District, it likely will mark the last time that both surviving Challenger locomotives will be in North Platte — just a few blocks apart.

Beginning in the late 1930s, a UP design team led by Mechanical Department Research & Mechanical Standards Vice President Otto Jabelmann, working with ALCO, re-evaluated the railroad’s 4-6-6-4 ...

The Challenger Union Pacific 3985 was just one of the largest and rarest locomotives Union Pacific donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in 2022. Union Pacific 5511 was also ...

Lee, 53, of Cheyenne, is the engineer who operates Challenger, locomotive No. 3985 of the Union Pacific Railroad, the largest steam locomotive still operating in the world. In the cab with Lee is ...

Union Pacific Heavy Challenger Steam Loco The last decades of the steam era in America produced many of the largest, best, and most extraordinary locomotives ever to grace steel rails – and ...

Lee, of Cheyenne, Wyo., is the engineer who operates Challenger, locomotive No. 3985 of the Union Pacific Railroad, the largest steam locomotive still operating in the world. In the cab with Lee ...

"Challenger," the world's largest operating steam locomotive, is scheduled to pull into Sioux City's Union Pacific yard Wednesday afternoon. It will be on public display from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m ...

RACINE - Lovers of steam locomotives and model train enthusiasts will be able to indulge their passions when the Union Pacific Railroad's Challenger No. 3985 passes through Racine and Kenosha ...