With all the talk about N&W 611, we've seemed to have forgotten an important birthday for another important steam locomotive this month...
Can anyone figure it out?
Mallard's speed record...
NorthWest Mallard's speed record...
That's true, but I was thinking of a locomotive that was built x number of decades ago.
Old Maud, the original 0-6-6-0 B&O Mallet?
I would surely have thought that SOMEBODY would have figured out 3985 by now. But evidently not...
Overmod I would surely have thought that SOMEBODY would have figured out 3985 by now. But evidently not...
And Overmod got it! July 1943 (not sure which day) is the build date for UP's most famous Challenger. 3985 is 70 years old this month. Does anybody happen to know the actual date?
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