ON BOARD NO. 3985 — Union Pacific’s Challenger No. 3985, steam locomotive will make a special stop in Columbus about 1:30 p.m. Monday at the U.P. office at 12th Street and 26th Avenue. The Challenger ...

To view a photo slide show of Challenger No. 3985, click here.To view a video click here. That 11-year-old Cooper Dalluge is fascinated with train lore is obvious. As his family waits for Challenger ...

OMAHA, Neb.—One of Union Pacific’s historic steam locomotives will help deliver the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Denver later this month as part of a 2,200-mile tour of six states.

FRED LYNCH * [email protected] Union Pacific Railroad's Challenger steam locomotive No. 3985 slowly rolled to a brief stop in Scott City Thursday afternoon as train enthusiasts gathered to watch ...

With just a click on his mouse and the help of a global positioning satellite transmitter, John Bromley can tell you exactly where Union Pacific Railroad's locomotive No. 3985 is at. Fremont area ...

ABOARD LOCOMOTIVE 3985 (AP) - When Steve Lee drives by, cattle stampede, deer run for their lives, fish jump from the water, children grin and gape and grown-ups wave. It's not the force of Lee's ...

The train passed through town just before 10:30 a.m., nearly 30 minutes later than expected, on its way to its first stop of the day in Crockett. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people lined the track ...

Union Pacific's steam locomotive #3985 is the largest operating steam locomotive in the world. This 4-6-6-4 locomotive, built in 1943 still runs today as part of the railroad's public relations ...

The Challenger, which also goes by 4664 and 3985: This was perhaps the world’s largest operating steam locomotive, until it was exceeded by Big Boy’s restoration. U.P. No. 5511: It is about 100 years ...

The world’s largest steam locomotive, built to haul war supplies during World War II, will pull into Villa Grove on Sept. 9. Jackson Vandeventer, a train conductor-engineer for Decatur & Eastern ...