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Owner: Union Pacific Railroad Company
Model:Alco 4-6-6-4Built As:UP 3985 (4-6-6-4)
Serial Number:70174Order No:S-1879
Frame Number:21X32 cylinders, 69" driversBuilt:6/1943
Notes:Challenger class 4664-4, donated to RRHMA.
Other locos with this serial:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4) CRR 676(4-6-6-4)
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UP #3985 Upper Narrows w/UPHS Steam Special
Title:  UP #3985 Upper Narrows w/UPHS Steam Special
Description:  In the Spring of 1994, Union Pacific #3985 blasts through the rock formations of the Upper Narrows of Victorville, CA
Photo Date:  5/21/1994  Upload Date: 8/4/2006 4:14:34 PM
Location:  Victorville, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  516   Comments: 1
UP 3985 in Riverside
Title:  UP 3985 in Riverside
Description:  Gordon Glattenberg photo
Photo Date:  5/21/1994  Upload Date: 9/30/2023 3:13:17 PM
Location:  Riverside, CA
Author:  Gordon Glattenberg
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  50   Comments: 0
UP 3995
Title:  UP 3995
Description:  UP Steam Excursion
Photo Date:  5/21/1994  Upload Date: 1/20/2020 6:06:11 PM
Location:  Cajon Summit, CA
Author:  Paul Maciulewicz
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  161   Comments: 0
UP 3985 and UPHS excursion train westbound.
Title:  UP 3985 and UPHS excursion train westbound.
Description:  UP 3985 and westbound excursion train
Photo Date:  5/21/1994  Upload Date: 11/8/2011 9:56:10 AM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Gary Kluge
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  4266   Comments: 10
UP 3985 and passenger train
Title:  UP 3985 and passenger train
Description:  UP 3985 with E units and passenger train pulling UPHS excursion eastbound
Photo Date:  5/22/1994  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 6:37:17 PM
Location:  Cajon Pass, CA
Author:  Gary Kluge
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  617   Comments: 4
Union Pacific 3985
Title:  Union Pacific 3985
Description:  Eastbound 3985 bursts out of a short curved tunnel in the Taggarts area around MP 965. Both tunnels were bored through solid quartzite.
Photo Date:  5/29/1994  Upload Date: 6/29/2016 2:51:03 PM
Location:  Taggarts, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Tunnel,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  194   Comments: 1
Union Pacific 3985
Title:  Union Pacific 3985
Description:  A few miles west of Wahsatch at MP 931, at the Curvo Crossover Tunnel, the original mainline, now used by westbounds, crosses over the newer eastbound mainline at the west portal. The Challenger has just come out of the east portal.
Photo Date:  5/29/1994  Upload Date: 6/29/2016 2:57:21 PM
Location:  Wahsatch, UT
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Tunnel,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  Though we didn't have time to get into posistion for this shot I am still glad we got it, especially since the tunnels are now gone!!
Photo Date:  6/12/1994  Upload Date: 5/17/2008 2:48:24 AM
Location:  Cajon, CA
Author:  Terry Redeker
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  707   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  4-6-6-4 taking on water. Date approximant
Photo Date:  7/1/1994  Upload Date: 7/22/2011 2:58:11 PM
Location:  Villa Grove, IL
Author:  Larry Behl
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  4-6-6-4 Heading south out of Villa Grove. Date approximant
Photo Date:  7/1/1994  Upload Date: 7/22/2011 7:57:03 PM
Location:  Villa Grove, IL
Author:  Larry Behl
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  364   Comments: 2
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  4-6-6-4 in Villa Grove yard filling with water. Date approximant
Photo Date:  7/1/1994  Upload Date: 9/30/2011 12:01:46 PM
Location:  Villa Grove, IL
Author:  Larry Behl
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
UP 3985 4-6-6-4 Challenger
Title:  UP 3985 4-6-6-4 Challenger
Description:  Arived Van Buren, AR for Overnight stop. Tomorrow on to Little Rock, AR Parked on Main Line in Van Buren at the 13th Street Yard Office. Ironically the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad (AM) has an RS1 Diesel a few months older than this Steam Loco. UP 3985 Blt 7/1943 AM 22 Blt 4/1943. AM RS1 Picture also in another of my album.
Photo Date:  6/4/1995  Upload Date: 10/7/2006 3:42:50 PM
Location:  Van Buren, AR
Author:  Richard Sprouse
Categories:  Steam,Passenger
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
Looking Westbound at a Westbound
Title:  Looking Westbound at a Westbound
Description:  UP#3985 and the Es are pulling off the mainline risers at Hinkle enroute to Portland on Main#1 while an eastbound DPU consist is being built on the Old South Lead.
Photo Date:  9/22/1995  Upload Date: 12/5/2009 9:47:27 PM
Location:  Hinkle, OR
Author:  Ryan Swanson
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9398(C40-8W) UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  543   Comments: 3
Title: 
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1997  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 6:51:19 PM
Location:  Valley Junction, TX
Author:  Forrest L. Becht/Scan of Calendar/C.T. Bruce Collection
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,RollingStock,Yard,Steam,Signal,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
UP 4-6-6-4 3985
Title:  UP 4-6-6-4 3985
Description:  Taken in the late-1990s
Photo Date:  1/1/1999  Upload Date: 9/26/2020 8:46:11 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Backing On
Title:  Backing On
Description:  Taken in the late 1990s. UP 3985 backs onto the excursion consist in Cheyenne.
Photo Date:  1/1/1999  Upload Date: 9/26/2020 8:46:49 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  The two famous UP steam locomotives sit in Roseville, CA during the CA Railroad Museum anniversary.
Photo Date:  6/12/1999  Upload Date: 7/7/2012 1:43:15 PM
Location:  Roseville, CA
Author:  Mark Forbes
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4) UP 844(4-8-4)
Views:  1255   Comments: 1
UP 3985 at Union Station
Title:  UP 3985 at Union Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/2/2000  Upload Date: 7/7/2006 6:00:10 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  mark mcdowell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/16/2000  Upload Date: 6/15/2007 2:04:40 PM
Location:  Las Vegas, NV
Author:  TIM PESTKA
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  988   Comments: 0
Title: 
Description:  UP 3985 at Martinez spur (Cajon Pass)
Photo Date:  1/1/2001  Upload Date: 1/8/2006 12:26:48 PM
Location:  Summit, CA
Author:  chad thomas
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  589   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  UP 3985 races across the Moreau River bridge at 60 mph on its way to the 2001 NRHS convention
Photo Date:  6/1/2001  Upload Date: 2/13/2006 1:00:14 AM
Location:  Jefferson City, MO
Author:  Gary Dyhouse
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  1013   Comments: 2
UP 3985 in 2001 (Sometime) at MoPac Station
Title:  UP 3985 in 2001 (Sometime) at MoPac Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/2001  Upload Date: 9/14/2004 3:20:59 PM
Location:  Jefferson City, MO
Author:  John Kuehn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  781   Comments: 1
UP 3985 in 2001 (Sometime) in Millbottoms
Title:  UP 3985 in 2001 (Sometime) in Millbottoms
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/6/2001  Upload Date: 9/14/2004 3:25:05 PM
Location:  Jefferson City, MO
Author:  John Kuehn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  845   Comments: 0
Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Title:  Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Description:  The 3985 and a few supply cars storm up Archer Hill
Photo Date:  6/7/2001  Upload Date: 7/13/2016 3:03:32 PM
Location:  Archer Hill, WY
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  west bound UP 3985 coming back from Illinois
Photo Date:  6/8/2001  Upload Date: 5/31/2008 10:42:34 PM
Location:  Egbert, WY
Author:  steven hamilton
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  490   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  a crappy scan from the Challenger excursion from StLouis...
Photo Date:  6/11/2001  Upload Date: 8/4/2007 4:22:40 PM
Location:  Gorham, IL
Author:  Mark Herren
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Challenger highballing to Milwaukee
Title:  Challenger highballing to Milwaukee
Description:  UP 3985 highballs through through Winfield, IL on it's way to Milwaukee
Photo Date:  6/15/2001  Upload Date: 8/5/2004 7:09:27 PM
Location:  Winfield, IL
Author:  Neil Huss
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  666   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/19/2001  Upload Date: 1/8/2007 10:08:59 AM
Location:  Fountain, IL
Author:  Pat Schmidt
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  382   Comments: 1
UP 3985 deadheading west to Kansas City
Title:  UP 3985 deadheading west to Kansas City
Description:  First leg of it's trip home to Cheyenne has it laying overnight in Kansas City, just a short ways away from Pleasant Hill.
Photo Date:  6/22/2001  Upload Date: 8/30/2007 9:50:30 PM
Location:  Pleasant Hill, MO
Author:  Jerry Albertie
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  521   Comments: 2
UP 3985 steam train
Title:  UP 3985 steam train
Description:  UP passenger train running back to home base in Cheyenne WY 3 miles northwest of Topeka KS
Photo Date:  6/23/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 12:33:33 PM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Eric Burris
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  622   Comments: 1
UP 3985 steam train
Title:  UP 3985 steam train
Description:  UP passenger train running back to home base in Cheyenne WY 3 miles northwest of Topeka KS
Photo Date:  6/23/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2004 12:33:33 PM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Eric Burris
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  575   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  NRHS Sprcial speeds north on UP's Chester Sub. over the Kaskaskia River.
Photo Date:  7/1/2001  Upload Date: 5/17/2008 2:42:08 AM
Location:  Roots, IL
Author:  Terry Redeker
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  463   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  NRHS Special has just been wyed in Gorham and is ready to head back to St.Louis.
Photo Date:  7/1/2001  Upload Date: 5/17/2008 2:44:55 AM
Location:  Gorham, IL
Author:  Terry Redeker
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  591   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  UP Challenger 3985 rolls south through Ault with a Cheyenne Frontier Days deadhead move to Denver
Photo Date:  7/19/2001  Upload Date: 9/15/2016 7:40:08 PM
Location:  Ault, CO
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description:  The annual Cheyenne Frontier Days special north of Pierce. At Cheyenne, passengers would attend the CFD festivities and return by train to Denver in the evening. Notice the UP E8B helping the Challenger.
Photo Date:  7/21/2001  Upload Date: 9/15/2016 7:41:23 PM
Location:  Pierce, CO
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  249   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2001  Upload Date: 10/28/2011 6:52:34 PM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  max linder
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/28/2001  Upload Date: 10/28/2011 6:52:40 PM
Location:  West Chicago, IL
Author:  Mike Conn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  392   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/16/2001  Upload Date: 1/27/2006 10:33:47 PM
Location:  Davenport, NE
Author:  Bob Wilcox
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  830   Comments: 0
Challenger makes early moring departure
Title:  Challenger makes early moring departure
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/17/2001  Upload Date: 1/27/2006 9:56:06 PM
Location:  Marysville, KS
Author:  Bob Wilcox
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  973   Comments: 2
Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Title:  Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Description:  The 3985 is only a few miles from home as it drifts down Archer Hill
Photo Date:  11/5/2001  Upload Date: 7/13/2016 3:02:06 PM
Location:  Archer Hill, WY
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  2112   Comments: 2
Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Title:  Union Pacific "Challenger" 3985
Description:  The Challenger is westbound....in just over an hour she would arrive back in Cheyenne.
Photo Date:  11/5/2001  Upload Date: 7/13/2016 3:07:45 PM
Location:  Egbert, WY
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  250   Comments: 0
3985 At rest
Title:  3985 At rest
Description:  3985 resting in West Chicago
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 3/28/2010 4:27:45 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Robert E. Petit Jr.
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
3985 in Wisconsin
Title:  3985 in Wisconsin
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 3/28/2010 4:29:14 PM
Location:  Kenosha, WI
Author:  Robert E. Petit Jr.
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Reason I took Pictures
Title:  Reason I took Pictures
Description:  In the first place. I'd heard from a friend that this was coming into town. I decided to see it.
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 11/22/2005 2:00:05 PM
Location:  Council Bluffs, IA
Author:  Rick C
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Stopped
Title:  Stopped
Description:  The day after the 3985 was at Council Bluff's Golden Spike Park she went for an excursion to Sargent Bluff IA and back. I followed from Honey Creek IA and took this from the Hwy 30 overpass.
Photo Date:  6/1/2002  Upload Date: 11/22/2005 2:17:18 PM
Location:  Missouri Valley, IA
Author:  Rick C
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  669   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2002  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:06:26 PM
Location:  Boone, IA
Author:  Matt Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  467   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2002  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:06:32 PM
Location:  Boone, IA
Author:  Matt Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2002  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:06:27 PM
Location:  Boone, IA
Author:  Matt Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  389   Comments: 0
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2002  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:06:28 PM
Location:  Boone, IA
Author:  Matt Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  522   Comments: 1
UP 3985
Title:  UP 3985
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/10/2002  Upload Date: 11/24/2005 3:06:29 PM
Location:  Boone, IA
Author:  Matt Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 3985(4-6-6-4)
Views:  512   Comments: 1


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