SP 4449 leads the Friday excursion toward Alma, MI during Train Festival 2009.

The Southern Pacific Daylight X4449 arrives at Milwaukee's Intermodal Station The train is running as the AMTK 971 and will spend the night in Milwaukee before heading for the "Twin Cities".

The SP Daylight passes by one of the many barns that line the tracks.

Good bye Daylight: the old Northern steam locomotive passes by some new houses on Chicago's northwest side. Thirty years ago on the 4449's last visit to the city, this area was more industrial. Ho... (more)

4449 heads west on NS. When it reaches CP 502, it will cut of from the rest of it's train and run light down the IHB.

SP 4449 heads through a super-elevated curve as it nears the Indiana border.

SP 4449 Sets at Franklin Park while a few on-watchers look at the big beast! Thanks to METRA, CP & All the folks that made this possible!

Two fallen flags pause together for a few hours at Metra's Franklin Park depot in suburban Chicago.

SP 4449 rolls through an S curve near Burns Harbor on the NS Chicago Line.

SP 4449 passes under an old Grand Trunk Western coaling tower at Lansing headed west for Battle Creek and points west like CP 502 on NS.

After shoving east on the Elgin sub from Franklin Park, the Daylight waits at A-5 for a westbound Metra train to clear the junction. Note the FRED on the front of the 4449.

The Daylight finds a little hole in the clouds as she takes her train towards Chicagoland.

Nearing the end of the first of four all-day excursions to Alma and return, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4449 cruises past a farm on the outskirts of Owosso.

Light power move on the IHB.

History lives. Where the NYC's famous streamlined Hudsons once tread, SP 4449 rolls past BO Tower, one of the last few active interlocking towers in the state of Michigan. The engine is enroute to... (more)