Steam & Excursion > A Daylight Of A Different Wheel Arrangement-SP #2485!

Here we see a familiar Daylight passenger train, but not the usual Daylight 4-8-4 on the point. What we have here is the San Joaquin Daylight that SP developed in 1941 to run between Oakland and Bakersfield, CA.

Power for this beautiful train were 3 streamlined P-10 Pacific's rather than the standard GS 4-8-4 locomotives used on the other SP Daylight trains. Here we see #2485 at Madera, CA on February 23, 1942 with her train of freshly built Daylight Coaches. Guy Dunscomb captured the scene. Note that #2485 already is sporting her War-time headlight and class light shields even though WW-2 is only 2 months old bu the time Guy snapped this photo.

Even when headed by a 4-6-2, the Daylight was a beautiful passenger train!

Martin



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/13 04:10 by LoggerHogger.

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Isn't that amazing! Thanks for the shot and history, Martin.

John.

Amazing photo . . . didn't realize they ran a different class Daylight engine on this run . . . . were these the only Daylights with Vanderbuilt style tenders?

Craig

Thanks Martin. I am building a P-10 in 1" scale, and have not found any with the headlight war visors in Daylight paint. Do you have any more?

Didn't Daylight garbed Pacifics also run on the Sunbeam on the Cotton Belt?

Anyone with decent sheet metal experience want to talk the 2472 guys for a photo special like this?

spdaylight Wrote:
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> Amazing photo . . . didn't realize they ran a
> different class Daylight engine on this run . . .
> . were these the only Daylights with Vanderbuilt
> style tenders?
>
> Craig


Nope. Some of the MT 4-8-2's received the daylight colors.

The T&NO had 3 4-6-2s (650-652) painted in Daylight colors. The trains were the Hustler and the Sunbeam ; Dallas to Houston, Tx.

The Sacramento Daylight utilized at least one 4-4-2 in Daylight red and orange.

Has the 'white' face been painted black for wartime?

~ BZ

BZ, you are right, the white face was on the engine on July 4, 1941 when she took out her maiden run. The face is now black as part of the war-time paint conversion.

Martin

3000 and 3001 were in daylight paint with no skirts, both Atlantic's.

lynnpowell Wrote:
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> The Sacramento Daylight utilized at least one
> 4-4-2 in Daylight red and orange.

That tender makes it for me :)

Great picture, my dad grew up in Bakersfield but he would have been very little when this picture was taken.

Nathan