UP Challenger 3939

UP Challenger 3939

By Angela Cotey | October 2, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Union Pacific 3939, the final member of the batch of 25 4-6-6-4 Challengers that Alco built for the road in 1937, poses for a publicity photo with a dozen boxcars. UP’s first Challengers, 3900–3914, arrived in 1936.
Classic Trains coll.

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