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[challenger3980]

UP Challenger 3977 also wore cab number 3710, when she was oil fired, different #'s but the same Locomotive at different points in her service life.

Doug

[4merroad4man]

Thanks.  That one had me stumped...

[Texas Chief]

    Its real number is 3977 and is now on display in North Platte at Cody park    Along with a 6900 cenntinal and a couple of passenger cars and the depot from Hersey Nebraska   Larry

It has also been painted in the two-toned grey (Greyhound) paint scheme as of June 1st. The first time I was up in it, it was black and silver.

Dick

Texas Chief

[cnwfan51]

    Its real number is 3977 and is now on display in North Platte at Cody park    Along with a 6900 cenntinal and a couple of passenger cars and the depot from Hersey Nebraska   Larry

[4merroad4man]

I was looking through the pages of an old issue of Trains recently, and in the Railroad News Photos section was a photograph of a UP Challenger in North Platte Yard in December 1966.

The number is a MW number, 900079.  The thing still had its elephant ears and is fully under steam in 1966.  Amazing! 

Anyone have any idea what the actual road number of this Challenger was?