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 ...

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.

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 ...

According to a news release, the Challenger UP 3985 is one of only two Challenger-type steam locomotives still in existence, and the only one to have operated in excursion service. The Centennial ...

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 ...

Over 150 people visited on Saturday alone to see the world famous Union Pacific Steam Locomotive Challenger #3977 and Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive Centennial #6922 at the Railroad Museum.

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 ...

Around the curve roared a million-pound piece of America’s history: the Union Pacific “Challenger,” the world’s largest operating steam locomotive. Within seconds, it was gone. The 1943 ...

The 122-foot-long Challenger, which was built in 1943 ... and probably the last chance that I will ever have to see a steam locomotive," Kent said. "We had forgotten about it and then we drove ...

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 ...