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Yeah and you’re obviously not the only one. I mean look at everybody else, I mean besides me.

Omg, just omg.

Yes, but no. This is when they were going back to their homes. That is, the UP 844(4) going back to Cheyenne, Wyoming, while the SP 4449 goes back to Portland, Oregon. In Cajon Pass (technically part of SoCal) both trains had a race up the pass, only to have the 4449 drop out after the hotbox detector went off.

Could you at least post a REAL comment, instead of spamming your family members names comparing their voices to random train whistles just for the heck of it? Besides, these people that make these videos worked their butts off trying to capture every single second of these rare beasts of iron in action, and these “comments” of yours aren’t exactly helping. You could at least expand your vocabulary and fully express how you actually feel about watching these train videos without spamming stuff like “Sherman Peabody” or whatever.

Bruh

Who?

Racing THROUGH Cajon pass, actually. Now where have I seen you before…?

*I can’t hear anything!*

Not a single toy train whistle to be heard anywhere. Only REAL train whistles, NO TOYS!!! I’m talking to you: @tristenmaxwell6173 Not you: @Kaseyleitchnextgen3281 you’re fine.

Are you deaf?

I would say the 8444 won the race because the 4449 triggered a hotbox detector, forcing the train to stop in order to cool the bearings down.

Yep SP #4449's 6 Chime Origin from Fast Freight Productions

And I couldn’t be any prouder.@@SuperFoxyRailwayProduction6702 At least your comments make more sense than Fabio Silva’s, I mean what the crap are those comments anyway!

The diamond used to be located just off West Valley Blvd in Colton, right next to the I-10 overpass. It has since been removed, with the UP mainline crossing over the BNSF on a flyover.

So do I. Out of all the whistles the GS-4 has ever worn, that one is my favorite one.

@@T128Productions Fun Fact: 4449's whistle was modified when she was returned to service in the 1970s so that it could be quilled. Almost if not all of the Southern Pacific's steam locomotives just had a button for the whistle rather than the standard cord.

Personally I love the whistle 844 had during the 1990s. From what I understand 844 no longer has that old whistle, which is kinda sad.

Southwest quadrant of the 10 freeway and S. La Cadena Dr. in Colton, CA. Since then (2012-2014 ??), the east-west trackage has been elevated, eliminating the diamonds...

I will concede to the camera work, but as I mentioned, this was shot with a shoulder held direct VHS recorder (borrowed from my mother-in-law - all I had was an SLR...) Apparently, Kodak had just started producing consumer-grade hand helds in 1987, so were (probably) hard to come by and exorbitantly expensive.

It's called Amtrak Desert Wind

@@BNSF4749Railfan actually, a superliner a passenger train is a lot different than a freight train it's kinda like a big motel on wheels it has a sleeper apartment, a restaurant on board, and a big engine that pulls the train.

@@kevinsweeney2810 the superliner is a railcar

@@BNSF4749Railfan yeah but I'm telling you a passenger train is like a motel on wheels

@@kevinsweeney2810 true though Amtrak have such these fancy things for 1 Train

Sorry, first time having access to/using a video camera...

True... She became 844 again less than a month later, if I recall... Thanks for catching that.

4449 wasn’t wearing its SP 6 chime on that run up Cajon. It was a five chime, presumably of CB&Q 2-10-4 origins, though I’m not all to sure about the wheel arrangement of the locomotive the whistle first came off of.

The 844 has a different whistle on it now. It has a Big Boys on it, many say it's one of the 4014s old whistles

Ease up man. The 3751 was going the entire length of the Southern Transcon from LA to Chicago WITHOUT an auxiliary water tender, so preservation era logic tells you that those diesels were there to make the steamer’s fuel and water last for as long as possible so that they’d be able to cover as much ground as possible before having to top the tender supplies back up.

8444 because 4449 stopped due to a hotbox detector going off about a hotbox on the engine

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New casting Nathan P5a

4449 did not have its original whistle in this

Neither did 3751, it wore a D&RGW 5 chime for the longest time

Cool.

Don't think so, I can't recall what whistle it has but it sounds like the 844's a bit.

It's a hancock 3 chime that came from an SP&S challenger. It's on 700 now.

It's an SP 6 Chime, but it sounds higher pitched due to the super-heated steam used for the whistle.

cool.

@@PeaceyPraps 6 chime

@@JOEMAMA_534 Sorry, typo from back then 🤣