[Fred Douglass]

..there's an additional couple of interesting views of old 3985---try cchan006 and Nightflyer. They can be watched in "high quality" and on one of them (with a gang chasing it in a Model T), they even put the video cam RIGHT next to the tracks. Holy SH!T!!!!

If you watch it and listen to the whistle, it's goose-bump time! One of the sites said that 3985 DOES weigh over a million pounds AND that once pulled 6 miles (SIX MILES) of (I presume empty) cars----that must have been on the Wyoming or Nebraska flats....

Apparently, 3985 was one of several "mountain engines" built in the 1930's.

Just foo keen spectacular, in my book.

Chow-dog,