NdeM Challenger hoax

colin anderson · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:58 pm

There was a picture of a NdeM Union Pacific designed Challenger in the MSN Mexican Railroad site. Was there a NdeM Challenger or this is a inside joke.

colinskate@hotmail.com

Bob Yarger · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:21 pm

Must have been a hoax. The biggest Mexican articulateds were 2-6-6-2s, which came in both standard and narrow gauge sizes.

ryarger@rypn.org

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Wed Aug 04, 2004 9:32 pm

Nice picture of one on the turntable in Ziel's "Twilight of Steam", so figure it was running as late as 1962.

glueck@maine.edu

Steam Supreme · **Posted:** Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:33 pm

The 3985 was re-lettered/re-numbered for the Clinchfield excursion but it hasn't ever done any N de M special excursions...nor is it planned...