UP 3985 on Cajon Pass May 1994

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  • @danielboone3770
    @danielboone3770 2 роки тому +7

    Awesome view! Awesome year! I love the 90's! Especially with UP #3985. Awesome excursion.

  • @kittymuffins6484
    @kittymuffins6484 5 років тому +4

    An incredible display of power captured with very unique and talented filming and gorgeous country. @ 5:37 WOW. I saw the Big Boy at the Cheyenne park, they are GIGANTIC. Everything on that engine is HUGE.

  • @georgebliss8262
    @georgebliss8262 Рік тому +1

    I was on this trip with my father and got a lot of great photography. This is footage I've never seen before and it makes me sad that he passed away during covid and isn't around to see what has been happening in the last couple of years in terms of steam engines. Great video.

  • @sgt2dog
    @sgt2dog 6 років тому +9

    The power unit between the 2 diesels A-B-A. The B unit or MU - we called it the mule, you could find a mule anywhere in the train, most often in the middle or in thirds, they were very common at one time.

  • @Alwaystrains
    @Alwaystrains 11 років тому +10

    Very great camera work! Looks like an awesome excursion.

  • @johndirks8255
    @johndirks8255 12 років тому +3

    This one of the BEST Videos I have seen of 3985, GREAT STUFF!!!

  • @1uboat
    @1uboat 6 років тому +9

    I am ON this train. I got off in Las Vegas

  • @ChachaChapati
    @ChachaChapati 12 років тому +5

    You know it's a '90s UP video when you see the abundance of APL/APC containers. Great video of the Challenger, either way.

  • @aidanztrainsnthingz
    @aidanztrainsnthingz 4 роки тому +2

    I was only alive in the twilight of the 3985's excursion career. This would have been a sight to see!

  • @Cornelu
    @Cornelu 12 років тому +3

    Super video! Really loved the shots coming out of the tunnel at Alray.

  • @struck2soon
    @struck2soon 10 років тому +20

    Be good to see the Big Boy heading up the same train...

    • @heckingaxle6618
      @heckingaxle6618 5 років тому +3

      3895 is the Challenger Class. Starting from 4000 is the Big Boy class

    • @justahillbilly7777
      @justahillbilly7777 3 роки тому +2

      The original comment aged well.

  • @MamaEtna
    @MamaEtna 11 років тому +3

    She looks lovely coming up the Cajon. Sound is excellent. I and hear both 3985 and her diesel helpers.

    • @blackbirdgaming8147
      @blackbirdgaming8147 7 років тому +1

      Felix Nuts Tomcat 3985 could have done it herself. She pulled 143 Maxi-Stack cars up Archer Hill in 1992.

    • @aidanztrainsnthingz
      @aidanztrainsnthingz 5 років тому +2

      @@blackbirdgaming8147 but you need dynamic braking so the train doesn't run away or have electricity

    • @aidanztrainsnthingz
      @aidanztrainsnthingz 5 років тому +1

      @@blackbirdgaming8147 1990

  • @MrMopar413
    @MrMopar413 5 років тому +1

    Great video I enjoyed it thanks

  • @zacheryriggins1965
    @zacheryriggins1965 Рік тому

    Absolutely beautiful!!!👍❤🚂

  • @jeffbutler5274
    @jeffbutler5274 7 років тому +1

    I rode on that trip on Saturday, then chased it up Cajon on Sunday. We had a dome car seat, it was great.

  • @mrlionel1965
    @mrlionel1965 8 років тому +2

    Superb video my friend! Thanks so much for posting this.

    • @yankinga
      @yankinga  8 років тому +2

      Thank you for the compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed it..

  • @richard4165
    @richard4165 8 років тому +1

    Great video. Thanks!

  • @michaelglass4701
    @michaelglass4701 7 років тому +5

    I have a HO Scale UP heritage set it is beautiful.

  • @yankinga
    @yankinga  12 років тому +2

    I appreciate your kind remarks. Thank you.

  • @raymondbermudez5660
    @raymondbermudez5660 5 років тому +4

    This is a great 👍 video and I will be subscribing several years ago I was stopped at the railroad crossing waiting for a Union Pacific freight train to pass and to my surprise the two lead locomotives was the e9 locomotives it was a great sight indeed

  • @yankinga
    @yankinga  12 років тому +6

    No, I lied. I shot it last Wednesday, in the Bronx, outside Yankee Stadium.

  • @jonburk8306
    @jonburk8306 5 років тому +1

    I believe this is the same Cajon Pass Trip where I saw it, 1994 sounds about right. I have a short VHS somewhere but this is much clearer video!

  • @andross51
    @andross51 12 років тому +1

    Union pacific steam at its finest, great video of the past yankinga!

  • @819dc
    @819dc 11 років тому +19

    yankinga, This is the best video I have seen of the 94 Calif trip. Lynn Nystrun, Barry Robinson & I were the fireman for this trip.Steve Lee & Bob Krieger were the engineers. Do you have more footage of this trip. I would like to have a copy of this if it is reasonable.

  • @eddieweigel9490
    @eddieweigel9490 Рік тому

    What a beautiful old lady raw power unbelievably I saw another video of 3985 pulling 143 doubles up Sherman hill ??? I think it was Sherman this old girl looked like a boss running that hill with all that weight and no helpers can’t imagine what 4014 would do or 3985 and 4014 together would do

  • @danielboone3770
    @danielboone3770 Рік тому

    I wish I saw this train in 1994 at age 20.

  • @aidanztrainsnthingz
    @aidanztrainsnthingz 5 років тому +1

    The Horn on the 951 is great

  • @duxberry1958
    @duxberry1958 9 років тому +6

    A very nice Video yankinga

  • @theengineerscab1317
    @theengineerscab1317 6 років тому +1

    Really Nice Catches .. and Just Found a Few Places where i will be Shooting some Vid .. i try to go every month to cajon .. cheers

  • @WinterbeastLines215
    @WinterbeastLines215 2 роки тому +2

    Where was that intermodal going that was over the Challenger??

  • @kittymuffins6484
    @kittymuffins6484 5 років тому +1

    @14:52 beautiful bells and horn!

  • @maxm2317
    @maxm2317 12 років тому +2

    Meh, I'm recovering from a cold at college, but I'm hangin' in there.

  • @jmslakings
    @jmslakings 12 років тому +2

    Yeah, I also wanted to question that. 2:08 I didnt know SP used cement ties back in 94

  • @1uboat
    @1uboat 4 роки тому +1

    I'm actually on this train

  • @THOMAS81Z
    @THOMAS81Z 10 років тому +1

    Great video,anybody have video of the 1995 portland rose excursion??

  • @NewtypeCommander
    @NewtypeCommander 12 років тому +3

    Was this videeo made in 1994, because the quality of video is really good for being nearly 20 years old.

  • @NERRP2017
    @NERRP2017 4 роки тому +2

    If 4014 and the e units hauled a train together that be nice, if only they put all the heritage units behind her as well and n&w brought back 121 for a 4014 and 1218 double header lol nah it will never happen lol

  • @clintonverseman7415
    @clintonverseman7415 7 років тому +1

    Awesome video. At 16:45 made me laugh, I guess the mechanical employee in the yellow hard hat had yet to take his Blue Flag training class.

  • @achmadsyifapapahnyareyhan8674
    @achmadsyifapapahnyareyhan8674 4 роки тому +2

    It never happen again, she retired now...i'm very sad

    • @zacharycalgher3978
      @zacharycalgher3978 2 роки тому +2

      You will be very happy to hear that 3985 is being donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in Silvis, Illinois where they’re restoring her back to operating condition.

  • @yankinga
    @yankinga  12 років тому +1

    She was already an oil burner, See my video of her on Sherman Hill. That was the very last trip on coal before her conversion to oil fuel.

  • @carmonajr18
    @carmonajr18 8 років тому +2

    Someone help me out. I notice the car or something in the middle of the two diesels. Is it like an additional engine or power for the two diesels? Or is it for something else? I've seen it in other videos but I couldn't figure out what is.

    • @wharris302
      @wharris302 8 років тому +1

      It's another engine
      A-B-A

    • @yankinga
      @yankinga  8 років тому +7

      That is a B-Unit (Booster). It is a complete locomotive except for not having its own control cab. It is controlled via MU from the leading A-Unit (with cab) as is the trailing A-unit.

    • @carmonajr18
      @carmonajr18 8 років тому +3

      +yankinga
      thanks, man. I saw one diesel in a 50's clip pulling a long freight train and I couldn't tell what those boosters were. thanks again for info man I appreciate it.

  • @johndirks8255
    @johndirks8255 12 років тому +3

    Point of video 17:36 what is it with poeple, they stand rite in front of 3985 to Trash Photo shots for others.

  • @TheTrainExpert
    @TheTrainExpert 5 років тому +1

    at least the train did not derail right....., because in 1986 a train derailed next to a neighborhood crushing all of the homes next to the tracks, in 1994 a freight train derailed, and in 1996 another train derailed causing people to evacuate the town

  • @aidanztrainsnthingz
    @aidanztrainsnthingz 2 роки тому +1

    isn't the first shot on the santa fe?

  • @englundus
    @englundus 8 років тому +2

    What are the two cars directly behind the tender, and before the first diesel locomotive? Usually when I see these kinds of videos, the locomotive is pulling one or two cars loaded with tools and spare parts, but those are different kinds of cars. Are they coal, or water???

    • @yankinga
      @yankinga  8 років тому +5

      They are auxiliary water tenders. They were the original tenders
      supplied with the first series of 4-8-4s (800-819) and the early series
      Challengers (3800-3839) and were full tenders carrying both coal (later
      fuel oil) and water. They were retained when the steam locomotives went
      to scrap and were converted to hold fuel oil only for the turbine
      locomotives. Finally, two were rebuilt to the current configuration as
      "water bottles".

    • @englundus
      @englundus 8 років тому +2

      yankinga Thank you for answering!

  • @thomascreary990
    @thomascreary990 4 роки тому +1

    What's she doing with two F7 locomotives? 3985 can haul that load by it's self , too bad she's been retired

    • @johnnyjames7139
      @johnnyjames7139 4 роки тому +3

      It is 3 E9 locomotives. I rode the last City of Los Angeles to Green River Wy. and return. Heading west from Green River we had 28 cars going 104 mph.

  • @nigelterry9299
    @nigelterry9299 7 років тому +2

    Love the Challenger but hate the diesels providing power. 3985 should play with that load.

    • @josephcason5782
      @josephcason5782 6 років тому +2

      The "dismals" were for dynamic braking, that is the only reason we had them on this trip. Because we made 4 trips over Cajon.

    • @aidanztrainsnthingz
      @aidanztrainsnthingz 5 років тому +2

      Plus Cajon Pass can be tough on brakes. We've had 3 massive wrecks there (only one had happened at the time of this excursion)

  • @ZeldaTheSwordsman
    @ZeldaTheSwordsman 8 років тому +6

    Those E9s could never make this trip on their own.

  • @MustangsTrainsMowers
    @MustangsTrainsMowers 8 років тому +1

    Why was it backing up under the bridge?

  • @maxm2317
    @maxm2317 12 років тому +1

    HEY! I thought I might find you here. How are you doing fellow railfan and roleplayer?

  • @retrokingranch
    @retrokingranch 5 років тому +1

    Same year of a runaway.

  • @yankinga
    @yankinga  12 років тому +1

    BTW, I went your channel to see your camera skills and if you follow it and allow us to see detail as it moves most closely by, and guess what? No videos.
    I'm shocked.

  • @martinlahr9154
    @martinlahr9154 8 років тому +1

    Mijn Lok,s

  • @calif1mc
    @calif1mc 12 років тому +1

    No need to be rude to the guy :(

  • @dennisyoung4631
    @dennisyoung4631 2 роки тому

    Onion Pacific!

  • @Horzpwr
    @Horzpwr 12 років тому +1

    was she still a coal burner, or had they already converted her to oil?