These Challengers have been deactivated and sit in the service tracks waiting for the inevitable. The UP shield is already gone from 3955. For more color views from that day, click Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: Steam 4-6-6-4
Location: Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
Locomotive #: UP 3950
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: September, 1957

Challenger X3966 gets a drink before heading out to a waiting train in the yard. For more color views from that day, click here

Steam still prevailed at Cheyenne in '57, it still is home to UP's steam fleet today. For more color views from that day, click heremore)

UP Challenger X3941 rolls off the table at Cheyenne. For more color views from that day, click here

Illinois Central #3 "The Louisiane" heads through Sardis on a hot summer morning in 1952. E8(A) #4018 was about two years old, having arrived 6/1950. It was the lowest #d E8 on the IC and was sc... (more)

Possiblly taken at the same time as the photo of the famed Danforth Cooke 4-2-4T in the 1930s, is an ancient 4-4-0 bearing Union Pacific No 9. I have no information about this engine, it would not... (more)