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The Clinchfield Railroad (reporting mark CRR) was an operating and holding company for the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway (reporting mark CCO). The line ran from the coalfields of Virginia and Elkhorn City , Kentucky , to the textile mills of South Carolina .
By early 1979, the Clinchfield Railroad (CRR) operated a steam excursion program under the leadership of general manager Thomas D. Moore Jr., using 4-6-0 No. 1, but as per request of their parent company, the Family Lines, the CRR began searching for a larger steam locomotive to expand the program.
The GE U36C is a 3600 hp diesel-electric locomotive model built by GE Transportation Systems.. The length of the locomotive was 67 ft 3 in (20.50 m), standard for U30C, U33C, U34CH, U36C, U36CG, C30-7 and C36-7.
Locomotives 3900-3905 formed the Rio Grande's Class L-97. [7] These were later sold to Clinchfield Railroad in 1947 and were renumbered as 670–675, where they formed the Clinchfield's Class E-3; these six Challengers were eventually retired in 1953. [8]
Clinchfield No. 99 at the Casey Jones Home & Railroad Museum in 2013. Carolina, Clinchfield, & Ohio Railroad, or Clinchfield for short, No. 99 is a 4-6-0 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1905 as South & Western Railway Company No. 1. In 1908, the South & Western became the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway. [3]
155 locomotives were rebuilt by the Seaboard Coast Line. The vast majority of them came from Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and their subsidiaries (Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Charleston and Western Carolina Railway, Georgia Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama, Winston-Salem Southbound Railway); eight units came from Clinchfield Railroad (with one of them ex Nashville ...
Union Pacific 3985 is a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 "Challenger"-type steam locomotive built in July 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, for the Union Pacific Railroad. No. 3985 is one of only two Challengers still in existence and the only one to have operated in excursion service.
Union Pacific Challenger No. 3985 is an example of a 4-6-6-4 locomotive. In the Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a 4-6-6-4 is a railroad steam locomotive that has four leading wheels followed by two sets of six coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. 4-6-6-4's are commonly known as Challengers.