Steam & Excursion > Did The UP Steam Crew Ever Run 3985+6936 Together?

Just a thought for those of you who might know, And thanks ahead of time.
Because the 3985 is kind of a Double Steam engine, and 6936 is a Double Diesel, and both were "World's Largest Operating" respectively, at the time when they were actually operational, as part of the UP Heritage Fleet.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/23 00:15 by RailRat.

Yes, many times they were run together. Here's my favorite, July 2000, Frontier days return to Cheyenne, blasting through Eaton, Colorado. 

Jim Burrill
Belle Fourche, South Dakota. 

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In 2008 the 6936 traveled east with 3985 to North Platte, I don't know if the 6936 was DIC or not during that move.

Oh that's nice!
Thank you Jim.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

bankshotone Wrote:
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> In 2008 the 6936 traveled east with 3985 to North
> Platte, I don't know if the 6936 was DIC or not
> during that move.

Thank you bankshotone, I'm curious we're they pulling an excursion train or by themselves?

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

RailRat Wrote:
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> bankshotone Wrote:
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> > In 2008 the 6936 traveled east with 3985 to
> North
> > Platte, I don't know if the 6936 was DIC or not
> > during that move.
>
> Thank you bankshotone, I'm curious we're they
> pulling an excursion train or by themselves?

July 20th 1996 cheyenne frontier days comes to mind.

bankshotone Wrote:
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> In 2008 the 6936 traveled east with 3985 to North
> Platte, I don't know if the 6936 was DIC or not
> during that move.

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,1767693

The video is about 8 minutes long, so as a warning, this isn't for the "2 minutes and done" folks with short attention spans.

6936 was "online" and used as a brake sled at the beginning of the trip. HotWater can further comment to correct any of my post. Anyway, newly-installed Lempor exhaust was being tested on this trip.

I got video proof of 6936 being used as a brake sled:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1765251

If a picture is worth thousand words, then a video is worth 30,000 words (30 fps). :-)

I met Bob3985 for the first time during this trip. 
 

Thanks for those videos cchan006
They really had 3985 polished and gleaming brightly in the sunlight!

Like the wide shot near end when you can see both 3985 and 6936 too!

Also Wondering how did you manage an 8 minute video on TO, were the upload limitations different back then?

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/04/23 18:11 by RailRat.

RailRat Wrote:
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> Also Wondering how did you manage an 8 minute
> video on TO, were the upload limitations different
> back then?

Upload limitations were different ~14 years ago. But it's understandable since cameras generating HD videos (1080p) were expensive then, so even if members uploaded videos without editing, most of them didn't eat up storage and bandwidth as much, as they were DVD quality (480p). The Canon camcoder I used in 2008 was DVD quality, and if I remember correctly, I uploaded my videos at slightly lower resolution (360p).

Don't think the bosses will mind a quick photo post.  Here's my shot from July, 2000, taken the same morning as Jim's shot in Eaton.  The dynamic duo is leaving Denver in fine morning light.
We didn't follow them northward but spent the day chasing the summer Ski Train to Winter Park, Fraser, and Tabernash instead.  Power was two Rio Grande GP60's, which we figured were more endangered at the time.
Both the Ski Train and Frontier Days train were such fixtures in this area, sure glad we made it a point to get them as often as possible.
Kirk

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One interesting case was the 2001 Frontier Days special. #3985 actually departed Denver with the E9B unit #963B as its diesel helper, but said E9 failed en route to Cheyenne. #6936 took its place for the return trip to Denver and the next day's one way excursion back to Cheyenne.