Steam & Excursion > SP 4449 in 1984 - follow up to SR's 'Just Enjoy' series

Following up on SR's fine series of B&W images this past few days featuring SP 4449 in 1984 and Hot Water's comment about adding a diesel at Black Butte for braking purposes heading downhill to Dunsmuir, thought I would post a couple of scenes I shot while chasing the train from Klamath Falls to Sacramento.

The first shows SP SD45 #7399 being backed up to the train at Black Butte. The second scene shows the combined consist at the top of the Loop south of Mott before heading down the grade to Dunsmuir.


Craig
mcmrailvideos.com



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/17/18 08:33 by spdaylight.

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Nice Video!

oooh how oooting , relaxing and awesoem to relive the GLORY days of
northern california SP Railroading in the 1980s.
Very very beautiful scenery to go with a very beautiful train.

Thank you so much for this glorious video.
THAT is how railroadingneeds to be done.
---Daniel

Not likely to be repeated anytime soon.

spdaylight --
That is a superb and wonderful video! And you recorded the 4449's beautiful and haunting whistle very well -- thank you very, very much!

czuleget Wrote:
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> Not likely to be repeated anytime soon.

Can't -- the SP 7399 and her similarly-painted sisters were all scrapped some years ago. :( And it would take megabux to get another trainset of Daylight-painted cars. And getting the UP to allow another excursion like the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight to happen would be very,
very difficult. But remember the old Dutch saying, "The difficult? That will take a while. The impossible? That will take a bit longer." And -- "Never say Never!"

Very cool video!
Forgot about that daylight painted SD45.
Any Idea how many of those units were painted that way, and why?

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

So how did they pull together all those Daylight cars? I remember seeing it on the return from New Orleans. My dad took us to Benicia to watch it go by. I got to see it a few times growing up, but no videos. So thanks for posting all these fantastic photos and videos.

I’ve had fun showing one of my sons, maybe he’ll get to see it in person one of these days.

Nathan

Posted from iPhone

I rode Klamath Falls to Sacramento and Lafayette to New Orleans. Bought tickets for my folks to ride Los Angeles to San Louis Obispo. Great memories.

Here are some (not great) stills to go with your film...
SR

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BoilingMan Wrote:
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> Here are some (not great) stills to go with your
> film...
> SR

Look great to me . . thanks for adding to my post!

Craig
mcmrailvideos.com

I agree, nice shots Boiling Man and great video Craig, I was 9.5 at the time but man I still remember that train like it was yesterday, the only time my dad and I really did some serious railfanning, and that was on the 8TH of May!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/18 18:57 by ProAmtrak.

RailRat Wrote:
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> Very cool video!
> Forgot about that daylight painted SD45.
> Any Idea how many of those units were painted that
> way, and why?

Just Googled my own question.
I see only one SD45 painted in this exact paint sceme an re-fitted with 16 cylinder prime mover as a prototype for all the re-builds, but was deemed as too expensive.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

Margaret_SP_fan Wrote:
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> spdaylight --
> That is a superb and wonderful video! And you
> recorded the 4449's beautiful and haunting whistle
> very well -- thank you very, very much!
>
> czuleget Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Not likely to be repeated anytime soon.
>
> Can't -- the SP 7399 and her similarly-painted
> sisters were all scrapped some years ago. :( And
> it would take megabux to get another trainset of
> Daylight-painted cars. And getting the UP to
> allow another excursion like the Louisiana World's
> Fair Daylight to happen would be very,
> very difficult. But remember the old Dutch
> saying, "The difficult? That will take a while.
> The impossible? That will take a bit longer."
> And -- "Never say Never!"


#7342 is still alive... as CITX #3096.

As for #7399, it was last reported being the EMDX #2816, and its last status is unknown.