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Published: 2010-09-03 11:01:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 9315; Favourites: 202; Downloads: 0
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Union Pacific 3985 "The Challenger" the world's largest operating steam locomotive sites outside the UP yard in Cheyenne , WY. After derailing in Laramie in April 2009. She was suppose to make a test run back to Laramie, WY on Sept 1st but got canceled after breaking some engine stay bolts - the run was rescheduled for the next day - but i hear she will make the circus train run from Cheyenne to Denver in October ?Related content
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it was cool that they let me stroll around it - it was suppose to run that day over sherman to laramie - and the coolest part - i was the only foamer there !
next month UP 844 makes it's annual cheyenne frontier days run to denver and back......
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How'd it derail??
Btw best shot of it on this site!
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when they were turning it in the UP yard in Laramie, WY - they damaged the water tanker - april 2009
i just got some sweeet shots of UP 844 between Medicine Bow, WY and Hanna, WY - today (sept 8th) as it was headed to Porland Or
i'll post some later after i download them.......
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it is - i can't wait to catch it in action - hopefully this october when i makes a run from Cheyenne, WY to Denver, CO...we'll see....
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It's funny how in the 30's and 40's Hilter refused to believe such a machine existed
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Hitler only saw what he wanted to see.......
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A shame that diesel is in the front of the locomotive, but damn! I think this is the best shot of 3985 I've ever seen! 
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thanks - yeah it was a shame, but at least i got to see them pull it out of the shop - and those UP guys i don't think are artsy fartsy type
you gotta work with what they give you !
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Under her own power then? 
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no - it was pulled out of the steam shop with a UPY (?) a small working diesel
that smoke was from the boiler - they had to keep it on - so it would be ready to run in the morning (?) someone there said it takes almost a day to get it up to steam ?
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I like to think of the challenger as a younger brother of Big boy
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3985's a 4-6-6-4, all Big Boys are 4-8-8-4's.
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Oh, okay then. It looked like a Big Boy to me.
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I am a little lost here! The 3985 derailed,this is the first time that I heard of this.
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from what i was told by someone who was there that when they where in laramie, wy - april 2009 and was turning 3985 around on the "Y"
the water tanker derailed - nothing happened to the locomotive...but took over two years to repair.
do a google search and i'm sure you'll see something
here's a youtube video of it.....
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Nice perspective. Really makes the front of the engine appear huge.
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thanks, but it is huge !
and i was backed up against another train so i really couldn't get back any farther.....
it kinda sucked cause they had a UPY (a small working diesel locomotive) on the front of it when they pulled it out of the steam shop and then didn't unhitch it after - so i had what i had......and where it was is where it was.....
but the funny thing - it's been almost 3 years since this train ran (after it derailed in laramie) and it was suppose to make a test run to laramie and when something like this happens there is usually a shit load of people there. but i was the only one.....
it's suppose to make a run to denver sometime in october ? - i think it's the circus train ?
if it does i'm gonna catch it when it crosses the s platte river near greeley....
remember now this is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world.
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