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Owner: Southern Pacific
Model:Lima 4-8-4Built As:SP 4449 (4-8-4)
Serial Number:7817Order No:1152
Frame Number:25½X32 cylinders, 80" driversBuilt:5/1941
Notes:GS-4, donated for display at Portland 04/1958, to AFT in 1974
Other locos with this serial:  SP 4449(4-8-4) AFT 4449(4-8-4)
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SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  It's been some time since a Daylight painted steamer like SP 4449 has passed over this bridge.
Photo Date:  5/11/1984  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 11:09:13 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  The day's trip is over as the crew and passengers aboard this trip behind SP 4449 head off for a good night's rest.
Photo Date:  5/11/1984  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 11:09:52 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  12   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Close up of the neon sign on the observation car being pulled by SP 4449.
Photo Date:  5/11/1984  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 11:10:33 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  7   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 (and Train #52) will spend the night in Fresno before heading south to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/11/1984  Upload Date: 7/23/2024 11:11:08 AM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
WFD arrives @ Mission Tower as SP Tr. 1-52 - Emboss
Title:  WFD arrives @ Mission Tower as SP Tr. 1-52 - Emboss
Description:  Southern Pacific "Daylight" #4449 leads the World's Fair Daylight train into LAUPT
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 9/11/2006 7:26:57 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  718   Comments: 1
WFD arrives @ Mission Tower as SP Tr. 1-52
Title:  WFD arrives @ Mission Tower as SP Tr. 1-52
Description:  Southern Pacific "Daylight" #4449 leads the World's Fair Daylight train into LAUPT
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/11/2006 4:20:48 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1011   Comments: 0
1-52 World's Fair Daylight Down the Valley
Title:  1-52 World's Fair Daylight Down the Valley
Description:  Southern Pacific #4449, running as Tr.1-52, blasts eastbound through Tulare on the morning of May 12, 1984 with the World's Fair Daylight. Next stop, Bakersfield to pick up a pair of helpers in Daylight colors for the climb over the Tehachapis
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 8/13/2006 10:03:58 AM
Location:  Tulare, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
Blasting Out of Mojave
Title:  Blasting Out of Mojave
Description:  Southern Pacific Daylight #4449, minus the helpers that provided assistance over the Tehachapis, leads the World's Fair Daylight eastbound out of Mojave on the original SP route to the City of the Angels for an early evening arrival at LAUPT in 1984
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 12/3/2006 12:14:38 PM
Location:  Mojave, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  660   Comments: 1
Daylight at Sunset - LAUPT
Title:  Daylight at Sunset - LAUPT
Description:  Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight" #4449 is spotted on LAUPT's Track #5 after a busy day's run to Los Angeles pulling the World's Fair Daylight excursion train on May 12, 1984
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 6/17/2007 11:11:17 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1217   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  At first light SP 4449 gets underway as it works to put its train back together for the trip south to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:19:36 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  22   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Rear view of SP 4449.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:20:33 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  13   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 backs down to couple onto the rest of its train.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:21:43 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  13   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 drifts by in the low morning light.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:22:45 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  23   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 with its entire train, known as the First Section of Train #52.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:23:46 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Almost departure time as SP 4449 waits to begin the trip south to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:25:08 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Time to leave as SP 4449 starts out of Fresno for the trip south to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/26/2024 7:26:41 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  The low smoke means SP 4449 is moving at a good clip as it passes through Fowler.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:19:56 AM
Location:  Fowler, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  The chase is in full swing as pacers on Highway 99 follow SP 4449 south.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 6:13:40 AM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  1948 or 1984? Hard to tell as SP 4449 rolls south with the First Section of Train #52.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 6:16:35 AM
Location:  Goshen, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  31   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 is away from the freeway and making good time passing through the farm land north of Bakersfield.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:22:37 AM
Location:  Earlimart, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Rear view of SP 4449 heading south.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:24:26 AM
Location:  Earlimart, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 rolls past the signal at MP 296.3 on its trip south to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:27:27 AM
Location:  Wasco, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 is making good time as it goes by a string of empty beet hoppers.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:28:40 AM
Location:  Wasco, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 has a clean stack as it makes its way through Fieta.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:31:18 AM
Location:  Fleta, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  The black smoke is raising as SP 4449 puts on a show for the trackside fans.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:33:35 AM
Location:  Harold, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 is well on its way south to Los Angeles on this clear spring day.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/27/2024 8:35:44 AM
Location:  Harold, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  19   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  A long day is coming to an end as SP 4449 goes by Mission Tower at the enterance to LAUPT.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:43:24 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  14   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Wonder how many times SP 4449 made this same entry into LAUPT during the 1940s and 50s?
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:44:05 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  The crowd is at a respectful distance as SP 4449 slowly heads into LAUPT.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:45:18 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  15   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 and its Daylight painted train has arrived as the darkness sets in.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:47:12 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  17   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  SP 4449 heads into the final curve before the platforms.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:48:31 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  26   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  All has gone well this day as SP 4449 is almost home for the night.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:49:26 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  24   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Starting off at dawn and finishing after sunset the crew of SP 4449 have had a long, and succesful, day.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:50:07 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  18   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  So ends a long day (and chase) as SP 4449 finishes its run from Fresno.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 10:50:53 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
SP 4449 - Caliente, CA - 5/12/84
Title:  SP 4449 - Caliente, CA - 5/12/84
Description:  Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 4449 gets an assist over the Tehachapi Mountains by SD45R 7399 and SD40R 7342. The train is on its way to New Orleans for the Worlds Fair.
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 5/23/2010 5:37:47 PM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) SP 7399(SD44R) SP 7342(SD40R)
Views:  2167   Comments: 1
Daylight at Sunset - LAUPT
Title:  Daylight at Sunset - LAUPT
Description:  Southern Pacific GS-4 "Daylight" #4449 is spotted on LAUPT's Track #5 after a busy day's run to Los Angeles pulling the World's Fair Daylight excursion train on May 12, 1984
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 8/18/2007 8:32:53 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  722   Comments: 0
Conquering the Summit
Title:  Conquering the Summit
Description:  After a dramatic struggle to conquer the 2.4% eastbound grade over Vincent Summit on the Mojave Sub's Saugus Line, #4449 and the World's Fair Daylight continue the journey to Los Angeles' LAUPT on May 12, 1984
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 9/26/2007 11:31:23 AM
Location:  Vincent, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  778   Comments: 1
Here Comes The Daylight
Title:  Here Comes The Daylight
Description:  WFD arrives @ Mission Tower/LAUPT as 1-52 in 1984
Photo Date:  5/12/1984  Upload Date: 10/25/2006 3:05:53 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  383   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  A clean SP 4449 will soon be heading east on the Sunset route.
Photo Date:  5/14/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 11:53:49 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Since arriving on May 12th, SP 4449 and its train have been turned and will soon head east as Train #4.
Photo Date:  5/14/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 11:54:39 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  16   Comments: 0
SP 4449 and AMTK 214
Title:  SP 4449 and AMTK 214
Description:  AMTK 214 departs LAUPT in push mode with a southbound train to San Diego while SP 4449 looks on.
Photo Date:  5/14/1984  Upload Date: 7/28/2024 11:56:56 AM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4) AMTK 214(F40PH)
Views:  27   Comments: 0
World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Title:  World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Description:  Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 departs LAUPT pulling the World's Fair Daylight under Signal Bridge 2 for the run east to New Orleans in May 1984
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 8/25/2006 2:07:53 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1080   Comments: 1
World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Title:  World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Description:  Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 departs LAUPT pulling the World's Fair Daylight under Signal Bridge 2 for the run east to New Orleans in May 1984
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 6/23/2007 1:41:12 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Title:  World's Fair Daylight heading for New Orleans
Description:  Southern Pacific Daylight #4449 departs LAUPT pulling the World's Fair Daylight under Signal Bridge 2 for the run east to New Orleans in May 1984
Photo Date:  5/15/1984  Upload Date: 2/20/2008 2:51:48 PM
Location:  Los Angeles, CA
Author:  Herb Iske
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  713   Comments: 1
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  Steaming east through Pomona
Photo Date:  5/19/1984  Upload Date: 4/4/2015 6:09:30 PM
Location:  Pomona, CA
Author:  Garry Folkeson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
A Daylight Lives
Title:  A Daylight Lives
Description:  SP 4449 Rolls east in 1984.
Photo Date:  5/19/1984  Upload Date: 9/14/2014 2:06:59 PM
Location:  Pomona, CA
Author:  Garry Folkeson
Categories:  Steam,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  403   Comments: 1
1984 Louisiana Daylight near Sanderson
Title:  1984 Louisiana Daylight near Sanderson
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  5/22/1984  Upload Date: 4/2/2021 11:54:12 AM
Location:  Sanderson, TX
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Steam,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  143   Comments: 2
SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Title:  SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Description:  Two iconic images meet - Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 and Reunion Tower in Dallas, TX - during the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the NRHS fan trip From Portland to the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. An unknown rail fan took these slides.
Photo Date:  5/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/6/2022 8:32:24 AM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  202   Comments: 0
SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Title:  SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Description:  The Daylight paint scheme is IMHO one of the alltime best color schemes ever designed for a passenger train outfits the long PNWC fan trip train to the World's Fair. An unknown rail fan took the color slide.
Photo Date:  5/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/6/2022 8:32:53 AM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Title:  SP 4-8-4 #4449 - PNWC/NRHS World's Fair Trip
Description:  The loco itself has led a life much like a mythical phoenix, arising from ashes for a new life. It served the Southern Pacific unitl retirement in 1956 and donated for a static display in Portland, OR. It was resurrected and restored for the American Freedom Train in 1976. It eventually ended back in storage only to be reborn in the 1980's for fan trips like this one. An unknown rail fan took the color slide.
Photo Date:  5/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/6/2022 8:33:08 AM
Location:  Dallas, TX
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Steam
Locomotives:  SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  164   Comments: 0


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