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Sp 4449 San Joaquim valley to Mojave

January 13th 2025

Sp 4449 golden coaster flying mega daylight

Sp 4449 san Lucas to SoCal 1986

Sp 4449 in tough guys 1986

Sp 4449 Taylor yard divison

Sp 4449 Oakland to santa clara

The black widow paint scheme is my favorite of the Southern Pacific. I now have two HO scale Southern Pacific F-7's, one FP-7A and one F-7B, both powered. Now I need one more FP-7A to make up my ABA consist of powered units. Cheers from eastern TN

This is the locomotive that's in the introduction in The Adventures of Superman George Reeves 1950s TV show.

Where can I find the original color video footage of the trains, I NEED TO KNOW! Thanks

Thank you.

I remember Phil Gosney!

Aw, drat it all! I didn’t see San Luis Obispo! But that 1960s Super8 footage is priceless! Thanks for putting it upon TH-cam!

5:09 Reading a book.

Great Video, Love the Black Widow Paint Schemes, Especially When They Were Freshly Painted !

I am watching this on Dec 31, 2024 One Block from the Engine House in Roseville, Calif. Now Union Pacific, Nothing has changed in 60 years !! Still looks just like this ! GREAT Videos !!!

Magnificent Video of Some Great Trains ❤ ! Thanks for Sharing !😊

Great Video of Some Very Nice Trains! Love the Southern Pacific at Night !❤ Thanks for Sharing!😊

Looks like you were by Ivy City/ New York Ave. And the old Hecht department store wearhouse.

Fantastic video. Thanks for all the work you do to post these.

Great video. ❤

8:05 does anyone know the origin of this horn? It sounds like an air whistle trying to sound like a Wabco E-2

This is a wonderful window into the past

Very enjoyable seeing older footage of UP 844 (8444) in operation back in the 1960s-'70s, the 844 has been a popular excursion service locomotive for more than 60 years and I am glad that 844 has had a long excursion career and still exists today. I personally want to have a chance to see UP 844 for myself up close in person at some point in the future as that would be an enjoyable experience.

I love this video watched it twice already

I've had this question for many years now? Why do or did the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe engines have that flashing yellow light on top of the locomotive cab? I've always wondered why this is? Not to mention during daylight hours, you can hardly even see that flashing yellow light? Thank you to anyone who can enlighten me. BTW, I think Union Pacific also used those yellow flashing lights?

It's a crying shame 4274 wasn't saved for the future.

Your narration style reminds me of Charles Smiley's. 😆 Great upload! 😊

This is not the only instance of railroads in the twilight of steam power borrowing power from other railroads due to unusual traffic demands, but this was by far the most unexpected.

I remember seeing a Day Light Train like this while I was working at Bay Meadows Horse Track (Sam Mateo, Ca.) in the late 1960's. It had a hodge podge of mismatched passenger cars. Obviously the end of an era.

I rode this train in late 50s with my grandmother and older brother. I remember it so well. Glendale to SF.

Thank you. Excellent Santa Fe.

WOW-at the 6:44 mark, two Illinois Central coaches at the end of the train!!!

Nice video! Great to see iconic scenes from the past. Say hi to Jemes B for me. Rod R

Those were the days before Amtrak. I am 73 years old. When I was young at least twice my family traveled from Los Angeles to Chicago by the Santa Fe El Capitan Hi level cars. Then from Chicago to Cleveland Ohio by a New York Central train. We also traveled back from Cleveland to Los Angeles by these trains. Not long after my family train travels the United States government formed Amtrak to take over the declining passenger service from the railroad companies.

Well done!

Well done!

Great video, well done!

That was a very long day we left the interchange about 4:30 didn't arrive and tie down in Suisun City until 7:00 the next morning

The engineer that picked her up from the interchange was also a Golden gate railroad Museum member and had run the 2472

And again her boiler time ran out 31 December 2023

Another silly comment I was there at pla when she rolled out of the yard under her own power after that rebuild

Let's also not forget for those who don't know she pulled several revenue service Caltrains like in that scene

I not only have run and worked on her I was on that move when she left for her new home

It’s pretty disappointing that Amtrak’s Spirit of California never ran long in service, I would’ve like to see this train service, especially riding aboard it. It must’ve went well running through my home city San Jose, California long before I was born. Also since you have the logo of the Western Railway Museum on one side of the whole video, I have very recently went to that railroad museum the first time back in November 9th.

Daylighter was such a classic train back in the day, something AMTRAK lacks. Love tge PAs

Nice classic footage... Grew up with both ATSF and Espee (running on trackage rights) in Beaumont, TX... Never got to ride the Sunset, unfortunately, but still nice to see the old Coast Daylight footage here (not to mention the wig wags at the grade crossing... Had a crossing in Beaumont with a pair of wig wags). Alas, the only pre-Amtrak train I got to ride (twice, in fact) was the Southern Crescent but have fond memories of the dome and real dining cars. Loved seeing the old PA's, E's and FP's, plus one of the consists that was almost entirely Daylight Orange/Red still. Thanks for sharing this.

These trains are so beautiful, could watch these videos all day. Wish I could go back in time.....

I took the Daylight with my grandmother in 1959, from downtown San Francisco to LA. It was my first train ride, but definitely not my last!