Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenge (DVD)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenge (DVD)
50th Anniversary of the Santa Claus SpecialThe Union Pacific Challenger 3985 made its first-ever venture east of the Mississippi River in November, 1992, as it traveled off line onto CSX rails. This historic event was prompted by the 50th running of the Santa Claus Special, a tradition of the former Clinchfield Railroad that is being carried on by the railroad's successor, CSX. Each year, on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, the special train carries Santa Claus and his helpers as they toss candy and gifts to the children of the coal mining towns that line the route from Shelbiana, Kentucky, to Kingsport, Tennessee.
The Clinchfield Railroad at one time owned six of the big Challenger engines which were used to haul Appalachian coal. UP and CSX, in a joint effort, worked to bring a Challenger back onto Clinchfield rails again.
UP 3985 underwent a special lettering and numbering change for the event. Leaving Union Pacific rail in Memphis, Tennessee, the Challenger traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, where it was converted to "Clinchfield 676." Following the Santa Claus Special, "Clinchfield 676" ran an employee special out of Kingsport.
The Challenger is a sight to behold as it works up through the twisting, rugged Appalachian mountains. The sound of the steam whistle echoing through the hollows will take you back in time, and the coal mining towns along the route will remind you of another era in American railroading. Here is all the excitement of Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenger for you to savor and enjoy.
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CSX had one hell of a steam program back then. Sad compared to what the railroad is now.
I want this DVD
this is from extreme steam
I remember blowing the whistle at Osborne yards as a kid when this locomotive was here
I saw this on a bus as railgroup trip to Super Steel in Schenectady NY. I pointed out to one of the group leaders that this video is appropriate as in Schenectady was the orginal place of ALCO and that the UP Challengers were built by Alco, he was stunned by what I said.
I have a ton of Pentrex videos, and this is one of my favorites. Such a monumental event: two Class I railroads working together to bring a steam locomotive, let alone the world's largest operating one, from Wyoming to Tennessee to celebrate a little charity train's 50th anniversary! Hard to see that happening today, considering CSX's vigorous anti-steam policy, the state of UP 3985, and the state of the UP steam program in general. Truly, a special thanks should go to everyone who made this once-in-a-lifetime trip possible. May steam one day return to UP and CSX!
Happy 12th Anniversary Pent REX christmas Trains.
I love how Santa Claus and his helpers just toss presents off the back forcing the kids to mill around on the tracks.
Lionel Makes O-Gauge Models of the Real Freight, & Passenger Trains.
I too remember visiting this loco when it was in Louisville. The only time I have ever seen the Challenger in steam. :-(
Can the UP do this, except paint 3985 in Rio Grande speed lettering. I mean the Clinchfield challengers were originally D&RGW locomotives and the UP now owns the D&RGW system. Would be a cool heritage run with 1989 also in the consist.
actually the Clinchfield challengers were originally owned by Union Pacific. The Rio Grande did operate them for several years, but they did not own the locomotives, they were leased from UP. They were returned to the UP in 1946 after the lease ended, and then sold to the Clinchfield in 1947.
Love how when the challenger was lettered for the clinchfield it was pulling the union pacific tenders and passenger cars.
Oh Yeah? What if 676 Did?
I'm glad I got myself a copy of this before it was removed from amazon instant video
Yep. The New/Improved Christmas Trains. All digitally Enhanced. & Remastered. In HD, & WS.
I can relate to the whistiels and hissing sounds of the big boys at Union Pacific are miss today
This is The Pent-Rex Edition Of The Clinch-Field Santa Train.
Well The 12th Anniversary DVD Edition Redo in 2017.
Featuring 4 New Songs By James Coffey.
Along With Snowplow Trains, & Also Santa Claus Specials. Like The Clinch-Field Santa Train 4 X-Amp l.
As In The past. There's A special Redo.
Yep. The New/Improved Christmas Trains. All Digitally Enhanced, & Remastered + 5-10, & 15 Exciting New Scenes.
So considering the Clinchfield Challengers were ex Rio Grande how bout the UP paint up the 3985 in a Rio Grande flying herald and run it over the moffat on there own road. :)
Prepare 2 B Amazed. All On 2 66 Min. DVD Dsics.
So Here's List Of 5-10, & 15 newer Scenes.
#1. Santa Fe FP-45 #95 goes Home From Barstow 2 San Bernardino, CA byway of the Boxcar Kind of a Hospital Train. Pulled by 2 or More Diesels.
#2. Union Pacific Big-Boy #4002 Calls The Western American Railroad Museum A New Home in The returning Past year of 1974.
#3. The Scrapper's torch Is now Demolished Away in 1990: 16 years later. After 1974.
#4. The East Den Avenue Morgan Hill park Is now under going a Total Construction as a new home 4 only 1/9 C&NW Class E-4 4-6-4 Hudson-s Designated as engine #4002
#5. The Harvey House Depot is busy building 3 more Tracks 4 the 10th Anniversary redo
#6. Amtrak's Desert Wind now restored by the Union Pacific Railroad. Gets parked on Track #4 at the H. H. D. In Barstow, CA.
The Year 4 the new home 4 This C&NW Class E-4 4-6-4 #4002's preservation is 1991. On Tennant Ave, & Murphy Ave.
nyc3001 i believe that was their idea, to paint it as a "what if"
Fun By Dr. William Furnish, Excitement By Phill Ambrose, & thrills By Angela T. Thomas. Same Great Family Entertainment. (68+64) 132 Mins. Of Exciting Holiday Train Action both Real, & Toy.
My granddaddy, Henry D Cheek was chief Dispatcher of the Clinchfield at Erwin until he retired in 1955
Hard to believe this happened 3 decades ago already.
Boy have things changed since then.
@@dillonohlemiller401 Mhm
clinchfield does not have 2 pistion rods
It Would Only at The CSX Railroad's 31st B-Day Party at The Midwest Railway Preservation Society In Cleveland, Ohio Playing The Special Dance Tune: The Hokey Boogie in The Beginning, & Ending. as The Animal Alphabet Sponsorship Announcer Dan W. Goes to his announcing Duties.
Presenting The Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenge DVD preview 4 the 10th Anniversary DVD Edition of The Pent-Rex Updated Holiday Train Extravaganza.
The last of the Clinchfield Challengers was 675. 676 never existed.
Oh Yeah! What if it did?
How I Love The Santa Claus Train!
I love pentrex train dvds send me long santa fe train video
Do you have footage of the steam engine in Louisville, KY?
But Wait A minute I think The Western American Railroad Museum in Barstow, CA Could Save Only Union Pacific Big-Boy #4002 4 preservation.
0:50 Challenger 3985 whistle ?
Oh sure, its safe to play on the tracks