The Challenger

Here's a train that I don't think I've ever shown in a video — I call this my "pipeline on rails".  Before I collected AtlasO reefers, I collected MTH Premier tank cars.  Here are fifty of them (I have lots more that just won't fit on the track), being hauled by the MTH Premier UP Challenger (4-6-6-4) articulated steam locomotive that came out in 2002.  Although these fifty cars are a heavy load, they are (pardon the pun) no challenge to the Challenger. 🙂  It's a great model that looks good, sounds good, and runs very well.  That's the auxiliary tender behind the main tender.