Unusual visitors to Los Angeles Union Station on May 13, 1981 ... Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 simmers on the track adjacent to SD40E 7364 and its display of new freight car technology - a 3-unit c... (more)

Along California's coast, the skies can remain overcast all day (despite what the state's tourism board says). The gloom is more than made up for by Southern Pacific 4449's heavy black smoke as i... (more)

At last light, Southern Pacific "Daylight" GS-4 4-8-4 4449 and her train speed through California's verdent Central Valley as the train approaches Fresno, where it will lay-over for the night befo... (more)

A northbound freight passes by the slumbering steamer.

Predawn light begins to brighten the sky over the Daylight steamer.

A very spectacular sight, 4449 steams upgrade over the Flathead's middle fork on a beautiful summer day.

Steam vs Diesel. Southern Pacific 4449 steams passed a departing BNSF freight.

SP 4449 starts its long journey back home as it pulls out of the Durand yard.

The SDP45 had been cut off at Gerber and #4449 was continuing South to Sacramento somewhere South of Los Molinos on SP's East Valley Line. April 26, 1981

Why We Made The Trip. With admirers packed into Woodland Park, Espee 4449 demonstrates why so many people made the trek to central Michigan. From across the track, a Gratiot County sherif... (more)

On the way to Railfair 1981 at Sacramento and the dedication of the California State Railroad Museum. SP SDP45 #3208 is cut in behind 4449's tender as they climb thru Bray.

SP 4449 is on one of the all day excursions at Train Festival 2009.

My first SP 4449 experience was short, but memorable. The legendary GS4 rolls through dual searchlights, only a couple miles from it's final destination after a cross country adventure from Michig... (more)

SP 4449 easily makes track speed heading north from LaCrescent, MN, pinch hitting for Milwaukee Road 261 on the annual fall excursion from Minneapolis to LaCrescent and return.

Meet at the Edge of the Sky SP 4449, AMTK 23 and the passenger special meet a MOW train unloading concrete ties along the BNSF Lakeside Subdivision between Lind and Hatton.