Back in the early 1980s, after it completed its duty hauling the American Freedom Train in the mid-70s, Southern Pacific GS-4 class 4-8-4 4449 was restored to its colorful Southern Pacific Dayl... (more)

Here is A blast from the past. Southern Pacific No. 4449 with a special excursion from Portland to Bend Oregon rolling through Moody in the Deschutes Canyon.

Bound for the 1992 NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 and the Daylight excursion train hits the east switch at Mt. Shasta. The GP60s had assisted the train over the Oregon Cascades the previous ... (more)

The Louisiana Worlds Fair Daylight climbs the 1% grade to the Oregon/California state line on the second morning of its trip to New Orleans. Twenty minutes earlier, the train had departed Klamath ... (more)

SP 4449 heads alongside the Deschutes River on a hot June afternoon on the OT Sub.

SP 4449 has another run of the Holiday Express well in hand as engineer Pat Tracy slowly brings the six-car train to a stop before changing directions. In the foreground, a pile of leafs has begun... (more)

It's still dark this morning in Portland as crew members from the Friends of the 4449 work to complete the final preparations before taking the 80-year-old product of Lima south to Oaks Park to op... (more)

With the change in direction beneath the Ross Island bridge complete just a few minutes ago, SP 4449 leads the Holiday Express back toward Oaks Park with another sold out train of happy families e... (more)

After stopping to repair an overheated bearing on one of the driver wheels, SP 4449 starts to move again towards the summit on Cajon Pass. This was the day of the famous race up the pass between ... (more)

Heading to the Washington Central, SP 4449 rolls east on Burlington Northern's former SP&S mainline.

Steam Special led by SP 4449, seen here passing the Naperville suburban Metra Station on its way towards downtown Chicago, makes an extremely rare visit to the Chicagoland area on its way to the S... (more)

Bound for the NRHS Convention in San Jose, SP 4449 climbs the 1% westward grade at Kegg Pit, California. At the time, no one realized that this would be the last time the Daylight 4-8-4 would go ... (more)

The inaugural 2019 Holiday Train steams past the Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge in southeast Portland.

After a photo runby for the passengers Doyle McCormack restarts "The Louisiana World's Fair Daylight" at Kegg, CA in great style as described by the late Jim Boyd in Railfan & Railroad November 19... (more)

Excursion train from Bend, OR to Portland, OR.