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SUPERBOWL

Let's thank the NFL for the annual excuse to party and celebrate the Southern Pacific's superb Owl passenger train which may not have gone to Las Vegas, but it did unite California from San Francisco to Los Angeles!

The Owl was known on the numberboards as #57 and #58 having been upgraded after WWII from the "Owl Limited" which was listed as train #25 and #26 but all of SP's Owls were superb @espee-southernpacifc

... the prewar superb Owl Limited often was rocking a cab-forward fullback fresh from spring training @aryburn-trains

Sometimes SP's Owl ran in 2 sections...

Anyway, I didn't really do any research or have anything to say -- just want to celebrate this superb Owl (lviii or not) on February 11th this year -- scheduled post!

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While I'm at it this profile pic of @trains-with-faces appropriately qualifies as 4449 fanart.

If you're seeing this that means the queue is basically empty! ←message to my future self but if you're swim and you're reading dm me or something (you know what this blog is about lol it's not subtle @4449fandom )

So here’s my TTTE OC, based on 4449: Valencia.

She’s a daylight with a robot eye, among other things.

And though the GS4s aren’t my all time favorite class of locomotives, I’ve been growing to love her design more and more.

I’ll probably elaborate more in other posts when given the time.

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Southern Pacific Railroad 4449 rolling slowly 1992

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Southern Pacific Railroad #4449 chasing

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Southern Pacific 4-8-4 4439 por Wil Hata Por Flickr: Photographer unknown SP 4439 was built by Lima in 1941. It was one of 20 GS-4s built that year. 4439 is at Los Angeles in May 1950 between runs. The Daylight paint remained but most of the skirting was removed during WWII for easier maintenance access. The 4-8-4 would be gone by the mid-1950s. Los Angeles, CA May 7, 1950 Train of the Day 5/31/21

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SP new Daylight steam locomotive 4-8-4 4416 at Lima Loco Works plant tour from Chicago. Lima, OH October 10, 1937 

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Two little cousins: 4-8-4 SP 4449 Daylight chills with her Lima Locomotive works relatives for a family reunion of sorts: 2-8-4 NKP 1225 from the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad -- aka the Nickel Plate Road. Lima 2-8-4 Pere Marquette Railway 1225. The get together was a little steamy with late nights spent around the turntable hosted by the sisters, little 0-4-0 tank engine Little River 1 and her grown up sister, Little River 110 -- a 4-6-2 with a tender behind -- 1 invited a couple of her friends too, other 0-4-0 tank engines Flagg Coal 75 and Viscose 6.

They all enjoyed receiving loving rubs and attention. But 4449 wanted more attention, so, like a naughty engine, she stubbed her pilot truck on a turnout frog and made a big fuss. She enjoyed the extra attention while it lasted, but it meant that she wasn't allowed out to play with her cousins later.

Ah, family reunions...

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SP #4449 and the friendly New Orleans 1984 World’s Faire Monorail #5.

This is also a good view of the top of the aux tender.

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Wow. Those are trains

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A class 455 doing some sweet multi-track drifting

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4400 = 708 🤯🤯🤯

SP train, engine number 708, engine type 4-8-4 Train #2, Sunset Ltd.; 12 cars. Photographed: El Paso, Tex., September 23, 1947.

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Daylight GS-4 4454 passing Granite Rock in 1947.

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Postcard Circa 1940’s

Inscription on back reads, “The Coast Daylight passenger train was run by the Southern Pacific Railroad between the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, via SP’s Coast Line. In the eyes of many the “most beautiful passenger train in the world,” it featured a stunning red, orange, and black color scheme.“

http://streamlinermemories.info/SP/DaylightPC2.pdf

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I mostly run British N Gauge, but tonight I decided to break out the Kato Morning Daylight set. The Southern Pacific GS-4 is probably my favourite US steam locomotive.

Hopefully the headlights and taillights are visible. (My phone was not bought for the camera quality.)

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Profile pic of @ilikeminecraftgaming4449