Sometimes when We least expect it, nice things can suddenly happen for all of us local "Steam Starved" Chicago area railfans. Normally stored and maintained inside an old Southern Pacific railroad roundhouse in Portland Oregon, and used on mainline charters occasionaly in the western United States...1941 Lima Locomotive Works built Southern Pacific 4-8-4 steam locomotive came to Chicago for a mainline fantrip or two.
This locomotive is painted in the Southern Pacific Railroad's Red, Orange and Black "Daylight" color scheme wich was introduced during the late 1930's on passenger trains. Chicago's Kiddieland Limited gasoline powered replica streamliner passenger train at the soon to be closed Kiddieland Amusement Park, is also painted in this color scheme.
This locomotive was originally assigned to haul Southern Pacific trains # 8 and # 9 The Morning Daylight. This train operated daily between Los Angeles and San Francisco California, traveling 400 miles one way doing it. The train was later renamed The Coast Daylight, and was dieselized in 1953.
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The 4449 uses recycled waste oil in a drip pan steam atomized burner configuration. I traveled over five hundred miles from PA to run 1.5" scale live steamers, to see the Daylight inside and out at TrainFest was incredible.
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