Steam & Excursion > A Decidedly Gnarly 4449

Friend Doug Jensen sent me this this morning.  He took it while passing through Portland in Aug 1990.  The '49 was still calling the Brooklyn Roundhouse home at the time.
I love this shot!
SR

Doug thanks George Zimmerman for the tour that day 25 odd years ago.

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Cool! Repairs to the engine truck.

Yeah, I'd never considered how the '49 would look w/o the pilot- or even if it had ever been removed. Kind of like removing the cylinder casting from the frame: obviously it COULD be removed, but something that would never need to be done in the normal course of things.
A very interesting photo.
SR

during that time the 4449 still had it's old mars light

UnumProvident101 Wrote:
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> during that time the 4449 still had it's old mars
> light

If you mean the twin sealed beam light package, yes. However the Mars mechanism wasn't changed.

Wow -- so that's what it looks like behind her pilot! Tnanks
so much for posting that photo. A rare look, indeed, at the
4449. Wonder why they had to remove her pilot? And, man,
that hunk of metal behind her pilot looks very impressive!

So Gordon -- not George -- Zimmerman was a tour guide them?
That man did so much for the 4449 and the group. He was an
amazing man, and his passing left a big void. I count myself
very fortunate to have known him, and to have been a Car Host
with him on the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight back in 1984.
Man, but that was a fun trip! I miss Gordon a lot, as do a
lot of people. But the 4449 soldiers on, well-cared-for by
the good folks up in the Friends of the 4449.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/17 01:45 by Margaret_SP_fan.

stay tuned....we are not forgetting Gordon N. Zimmerman at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Arlen

If you don't have a drop table or can't tie it up that long, you jack the engine up to clear the pilot truck, remove the pilot and roll the truck out.
She sure has a lot of smokebox door dogs!

I was talking not talking about mars light mechanism but her old lamp from the 50s

UnumProvident101 Wrote:
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> I was talking not talking about mars light
> mechanism but her old lamp from the 50s

Well, to be clear, the GS-4 class locomotives were delivered with the single lamp Mars Oscillating Signal light. The SP later up-graded/modified the Mars Lights to the twin sealed beam light package, but not sure what year. Thus, 4449 carried the twin sealed beam lights until Doyle made a bracket and reflector/lens mechanism to reflect her original "as delivered" painting, lettering, and Mars Light (can't remember what year THAT was, however).

I think it was right before the Michigan trip, wasn't it? I seem to remember some photos of Mr. McCormack/4449 in the process...

Cheers, Dave