Item 1: 2020 Calendar SP 4449. 4449 is running through the Columbia River Gorge this week for an upcoming film. A pair of Southern Pacific's famous GS-4 "Golden States," one wearing her iconic "Daylight" livery (famous #4449) and the other in drab black (#4447, which has also lost her modest streamlining), are paused at Humphreys, California with a special fan trip on October 17, 1954. All proceeds go to the restoration and support of SP 4449. The locomotives' fame seems only to have increased since the end of their regular service on the Southern Pacific… The Southern Pacific 4449 is quite a celebrity among the railfan community today and even with the general public. The restoration took longer than was hoped and the AFT was in danger of starting its tour pulled by diesels. Locomotive #4449. The 2020 Calendar is a 12 month calendar and features excellent photographs of the SP 4449 These pictures are from out trips in the Northwest as well as across the country. thanks for the info and it will help. SP 4449 is waiting on a siding to let an Amtrak passenger train pass by in 2000. The story would be dramatic enough if it only included the SP 4449, the last surviving example of Southern Pacific's "GS-4" (General Service/Golden State) class of steam locomotives. Former Southern Pacific Daylight locomotive 4449 was pulled from Oaks Park in Portland, OR on December 14,1974 to begin restoration to pull the American Freedom Train. SP 4449 during the late-1960s in Oaks Park, Oregon. Railfan Events & Train Excursions Calendar. Southern Pacific #4449 GS-4 "The Most Beautiful Train in the World." Former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 "Daylight" Steam Locomotive # 4449 was removed from Oaks Park for restoration to pull the AFT. This page provides a calendar of upcoming railfan … oh well sometimes i have a brain what is the word i'm looking for as i forgot again. To combat plummeting passenger traffic on its home turf—California—the Southern Pacific turned to Pullman-Standard and the Lima Locomotive Works for its first streamliner. It's a lofty title, but one often attributed to the Southern Pacific's Daylight and the GS-4 Northerns. (Retired 2 Oct 1957, placed in the park 24 April 1958.) Schedule of upcoming railfan events, conventions, charters, night photo sessions, rare mileage trips, and steam train excursions in the U.S. and Canada. PORTLAND, Ore. — Southern Pacific No. However, when Southern Pacific (SP) originally ordered the locomotive it was just one of nearly six-dozen the railroad would come to own. $11.99 per calendar. The famed 4-8-4 steam locomotive was fired up over the weekend and ran from the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland to Vancouver, Wash., on Monday morning. 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