UP announces donation of Steam Locomotive 3985 to Friends of 261 group.

Trains Magazine Steam & Preservation
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Schedule posted - Union Pacific Heritage Donation Special

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

The donated equipment, which includes Challenger No. 3985, TTT-6 No. 5511, Centennial No. 6936 and several passenger rail cars, will leave Union Pacific’s Steam Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Nov. 11, and will make periodic maintenance stops along the way in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. The donated locomotives will not be under power during this trip and will be pulled by diesel locomotives.

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An item in my original home town’s weekly newsletter says the equipment will overnight November 18 at IAIS’s South Amana yard. Expected arrival was 730pm with a next morning departure.

The 6936 was a favorite of UP’s head of Engineering/MOW Bill Wimmer. He used it on his yearly system inspections. I don’t believe it’s been used since he retired. I almost caught it once on one of the inspections as a conductor.

Jeff