🍀 WE ARE TURNING A NEW LEAF IN 2026. As part of a rebranding effort, several of our older, out-of-date videos will soon become unlisted, including our Top 10 Retired Steam Excursion Stars series — but there will be plenty more to make up for it.
🧡 SOUTHERN PACIFIC No. 4449 — one of the world’s most famous and most beautiful steam locomotives.
Constructed by the Lima Locomotive Works and pressed into service on May 30, 1941, this GS-4 class 4-8-4 locomotive was capable of operating up to 110 mph. Its most famous assignment was the San Francisco to Los Angeles “Coast Daylight”, the finest named passenger train on the Southern Pacific, but as diesels proved themselves in passenger service, No. 4449 and its siblings were slowly reassigned or bumped down to lower trains.
On October 2, 1957, the locomotive was retired at just 16 years old, and it became the only GS-4 to be preserved when it was donated to the city of Portland, Ore., for display in 1958. Today, it is one of only two locomotives from the entire GS series in existence.
It reentered service in April of 1975 for the American Freedom Train, a nationwide celebration of the United States Bicentennial, and despite clearance issues in parts of the eastern U.S., the majority of the mileage was made behind No. 4449. Since then, the locomotive, now often referred to as simply the “Daylight”, has racked up many more miles in excursion service, including three feature film appearances, tandem excursions with many other locomotives, and a legendary excursion from Portland to the @SteamRailroadingInstitute in Owosso, Mich., in 2009.
In 2012, the @oregonrailheritagefoundati496 was established in the heart of downtown Portland, where the Daylight now resides with four other steam locomotives in various stages of restoration.
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🍀 WE ARE TURNING A NEW LEAF IN 2026. As part of a rebranding effort, several of our older, out-of-date videos will soon become unlisted, including our Top 10 Retired Steam Excursion Stars series — but there will be plenty more to make up for it.
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🧡 SOUTHERN PACIFIC No. 4449 — one of the world’s most famous and most beautiful steam locomotives.
Constructed by the Lima Locomotive Works and pressed into service on May 30, 1941, this GS-4 class 4-8-4 locomotive was capable of operating up to 110 mph. Its most famous assignment was the San Francisco to Los Angeles “Coast Daylight”, the finest named passenger train on the Southern Pacific, but as diesels proved themselves in passenger service, No. 4449 and its siblings were slowly reassigned or bumped down to lower trains.
On October 2, 1957, the locomotive was retired at just 16 years old, and it became the only GS-4 to be preserved when it was donated to the city of Portland, Ore., for display in 1958. Today, it is one of only two locomotives from the entire GS series in existence.
It reentered service in April of 1975 for the American Freedom Train, a nationwide celebration of the United States Bicentennial, and despite clearance issues in parts of the eastern U.S., the majority of the mileage was made behind No. 4449. Since then, the locomotive, now often referred to as simply the “Daylight”, has racked up many more miles in excursion service, including three feature film appearances, tandem excursions with many other locomotives, and a legendary excursion from Portland to the @SteamRailroadingInstitute in Owosso, Mich., in 2009.
In 2012, the @oregonrailheritagefoundati496 was established in the heart of downtown Portland, where the Daylight now resides with four other steam locomotives in various stages of restoration.
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