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.

Southern Pacific 4449 returns to Owosso from it's day long excursion to Alma, Michigan. I caught it just outside Elsie.

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)

An old Grand trunk work crane watches over the nights events. As SP 4449 who is the real star of the evening gets all the attention this beautiful night.

A solitary fan watches the Daylight make a run-by at Trainfest. Yes, there were about 600 more behind him.

Two small children are fascinated by the sight of working steam.

The bright early morning sun greeted the 4449 while it rested in Michigan City waiting for the rest of the passenger train to catch up.