The Complete 3985 53 Mins #SRP-3985 $39.95 Double-heading Over Donner Pass - Deep in Snow Over the Sierras, NOT Around Them - Challengers in the 1940s. Early History of 3985 - All coal fired, NO diesels 1) 1981: the first trails 2) Helicopter pacing over Sherman Hill as she doubleheads with 844. The snow capped Rockies as backdrop. Deep in Weber Canyon. Pacing against the snow crowned Wasatch Range. 3) Winding across the flank of the Sierra Nevada Range. Cresting Donner Summit deep in snow. 4) 1982 and the first solo trip: Over Sherman Hill, across Wyoming and thru the Bear River Range on the Oregon Short Line to Pocatello. 5) Squirming thru Nugget Canyon. The first fan trip: starting down the city streets of Salt Lake, south to Provo dwarfed by the awesome grandeur of the Southern Wasatch, heavy with snow. 6) In the cab and 5 feet from the drivers as 3985 goes pounding back to Cheyenne. Breathtaking pacing against the Northern Wasatch all white with winter. Challengers in the 1940s The way it actually was on the high Plains of Nebraska when Challengers did real work on the Union Pacific. Has slope back switchers, a few 800s and the first diesel powered passenger trains. Photographed by Guy Brant. Color back