The Daylight's the coolest loco running! You're so lucky to have seen it!

Even luckier that it lives in my city! it's heading to Michigan on the 3rd, and I will try to snap a pic of it leaving....

Yeah!

Ahh one of my favorite locomotives. got a small sacle model of it and everything

I have the bachmann version, have an observation car, a domed car, and now a postal car. not a full set, but nice enough...

mines is an old bachmann plus model. got a pic in my gallery of it somewhere. Too bad she can't come down south beacuse she's too heavy or some crap like that lol

http://www.sp4449.com/

tell me more please. she's not in oregon at the moment, she's back east. she can't go down south?

well she did come to Atlanta back when she pulled the AFT in the 70's. Someone told me it has to do with the rails not being able to support an engine of her calibur or something. not sure how true it is but I do know that the 4-8-4's that did run in the south weren't that large compared to some of there northern and western counterparts on other railways. Though if she ever did puff through Georgia I'd go out my way to see her in action

Georgia... Hmm. didn't Andrew's Escape go through that state? (the greatest train chase of the civil war)

yep sure did

Me too.

i absolutly LOVE the 4449 ^^

I have the HO model because it lives here in Portland, Oregon.

id do anything to see the real thing

http://s574.photobucket.com/albums/ss190/Winterbeastie/?action=view&current=4449Pulling_out_of_Brooklyn.jpg

I have a bunch of not-professionally-done photos in my photobucket. feel free to look.

Steamer?

very much so.

Oil, Coal or Wood (I'm betting Oil burner).

All western locomotives went directly from wood to oil. we did not have a coal phase as the east coast did. We were also the first, via the southern pacific rail lines, to develop the idea of the cab forward design. The crew needed to be able to breathe not smoky air.
The 4449 is indeed an Oil Burner.

I took a photo of this one blasting past at 80 mph on a return East, after a journey to the West coast in 2009.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2217950/

http://www.4449.com/ is a great place to see news about my favorite loco. give it a look!

I love the Daylight locomotives for their power, grace and color. Superb machines they were, I'm glad that three are preserved, and engines No. 4449 and 6051 are operating today.

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