p51 posted:It just staggers my imagination that anyone would prefer a Challenger over a Big Boy, except for Jack's mentioning of higher speeds with 3985.
Here's something you rarely hear about these days, what appears to be one of 3985's test runs once she got running.
That's from 2008, more than 25 years from "once she got running", i.e. she was returned to service in 1981, in time for the grand opening of the California State Railroad Museum.
