SOUTHERN PACIFIC GS-4 LOCOMOTIVE #4449
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Southern Pacific Class: GS-4 Configuration: 4-8-4 Driver Diameter: 80" (6' 8") Cylinder Bore & Stroke: 26" X 32" Weight: 475,000 pounds Boiler Pressure: 300 lbs. Tractive effort: 78,650 Builder: Lima Locomotive Year built: 1941
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SP 4449, 1940's
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449, 1940's Order No. SP4449I Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449, 1940's 11" X 17" Order No. SP4449NI Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes A powerful GS-4 #4449 sits at the ready at Watsonville Junction waiting to return to San Francisco with the Suntan Special, once it comes in from Santa Cruz. Who would have ever thought when this picture was taken in the late 1940's that this engine would go on to be probably the most photographed ever in the history of steam. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17" Image, Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4449 on #71 San Mateo, CA
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449 on #71 San Mateo, 1950 Order No. SP1-71I Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449 on #71 San Mateo, 1950 11" X 17" Order No. SP1-71NI In this great C. W. Jernstrom shot of Southern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 #4449 at San Mateo, California the Golden State Lady works the Coastal Passenger and express train #71. March 1, 1950. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17" Image, Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] --------------------THE AMERICAN FREEDEM TRAIN
SP 4449 in Restoration
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 Restoration For reference only! Not for sale! Photographer: Bruce A. MacGregor Chosen to lead the Bicentenial Freedom Train, former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 Daylight locomotive #4449 has been moved from static display in Oak Park to the roundhouse for restoration. --------------------SP 4449 Newly restored, Redding, CA
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449 Restored, under steam, Redding For reference only! Not for sale! Photograpger: Rick Hamman People line the Amtrak/Southern Pacific platform at Redding, California as #4449 has arrived from Portland on its trip east to pick up the Freedom Train. --------------------SP 4449 leaves Redding, full throttle
Former SP 4-8-4 #4449 departs Redding for Sacramento For reference only! Not for sale! Photograpger: Rick Hamman The Golden State Lady is once again under steam as it is seen leaving Redding for Sacramento and, eventually, Chicago for American Freedom Train duty. "I stand and watch this 6,000 horsepower 4-8-4 Lima built beauty leave town under full throttle accelerating with its light weight, short, train. In almost no time at all it is under full speed and sounding just like it did 20 years previous on the Lark, Daylight, Starlight, Coaster and Noon Daylight of my memory. Go you Golden State Lady!" ...Rick Hamman --------------------SP 4449 at Cape Horn
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449/train (Cape Horn) For reference only! Not for sale! Photographer: Bruce A. MacGregor Midas, California, June 23, 1975: Former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 Daylight locomotive #4449 is seen with short train headed to Chicago. Here, the train rounds the curve at Cape Horn, in the American River Canyon, high in the Sierra Mountains. --------------------SP 4449 at Cape Horn going away
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449/train (Cape Horn) For reference only! Not for sale! Photographer: Bruce A. MacGregor Midas, California, June 23, 1975: Former Southern Pacific 4-8-4 Daylight locomotive #4449 is seen with short train headed to Chicago. Here, the train goig away rounds the curve at Cape Horn, in the American River Canyon, high in the Sierra Mountains. --------------------SP-4449, 1976
Photo, SP 4449 at night, San Luis Obispo Order No. SP4449DP Photograph by: Rick Hamman The Golden State Lady, #4449 pauses at San Luis Obispo during the year of the Bicentennial. It is now 1:00am. For those who care, the crew is switching the numbers in the numberboard to those of all the various old Coast Division trains that routinely saw a 4400 serie Daylight type engine on the headend. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4449 (Stenner Bridge)
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 (Stenner Bridge) For reference only! Not for sale! Photographer: Bruce A. MacGregor Headed out of Sam Luis Obispo, former Southern Pacific #4449 on the head end of the American Freedem Train crosses Stenner Bridge on its way upgrade, 1976. --------------------SP-4449, 1976, Cuesta Horseshoe Curve
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449, under steam, SLO\Cuesta For reference only! Not for sale! Photograph by: Rick Hamman Horseshoe Curve, San Luis Obispo, 1976: Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449 returns to conquer the very 3.25 percent grade for which it was originally designed. Pulling almost 1,400 tons it and an Amtrak engine works the hill. --------------------SP-4449, 1976, Cuesta Grade, full power!
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449, under steam, SLO\Cuesta Order No. RH444911P Photograph by: Rick Hamman Southern Pacific #4449 works the Cuesta Grade going away as workers close up the signal cabinet and litterally thousands of photographers are on hand for this one time shot. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4449, Under San Francisco Bay Bridge
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449, steam up, Under SF Bay Bridge For reference only! Not for sale! Photograph by: Rick Hamman The American Freedom Train has arrived in San Francisco and #4449 has been disconnected from the train. Doyle and others inspect the engine, do normal maintenance and take a break as the train will be here for several days. --------------------SP-4449, 1976
Photo, EX SP 4-8-4 4449 at San Francisco Order No. SP4449BP Photograph by: Rick Hamman The big American Freedom Train locomotive GS-4 #4449 Sits underneath the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the Belt Line in this 1976 head on view. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4449, Tracy, CA
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449, steam up, at Tracy, CA For reference only! Not for sale! Photograph by: Rick Hamman It is a cold blustery early morning. Still, hundreds of locals turn out for this one time view of an engine that used to be a reqular visitor in earlier years. --------------------
AFTER THE AMERICAN FREEDEM TRAIN
SP-4449, At Night, 1981
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449, "Night", San Luis Obispo 1981 For reference only! Not for sale! Photographer: Steve McKemzie Perhaps out of all the thousands of 4449 photographs, many people think this one of the 4-8-4 in its Daylight color scheme at San Luis Obispo on May 14, 1981 is the winner! --------------------SP-4449, 1981
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449 at Aromas, Calif. Order No. SP4449EI Photo, SP 4-8-4 #4449 at Aromas, Calif. Order No. SP4449EP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes The Golden State Lady, #4449 rounds the curve with its full dress Daylight train #99 bound for San Francisco. No, it is not back in the 1940's, though it passed this way many times. Rather, it is the rebuilt SP4449 with a special Southern Pacific excursion train for valued freight customers on the Coast. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4449, 1984
Photo, SP 4-8-4 #4449 in the Salinas Valley Order No. SP4449AP Photograph by: Rick Hamman As if out of the past, car restoration expert Jack Hanson parked his old restored ford truck at the Salinas Depot, got out, and walked up to where the crowd was waiting for 4449 to arrive. As luck would have it the big engine stoped right next to Jack's truck. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4449, 1984
Photo, SP 4-8-4 #4449 in the Salinas Valley Order No. SP4449CP Photograph by: Rick Hamman Southern Pacific #4449 works a special marketing train for company customers on this 1980 day. It is coming
around a curve just north of Salinas at 79 miles per hour. Note how the morning fog and locomotive smoke blends together and hids the train in the curve except for the engine and first couple of cars. Also, on this particular day the president was on board. He told the crew, "Now I don't want you to go over 79 miles-per-hour. But, I also don't want you to go under that either." Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4449, 1984
Photo, SP 4-8-4 #4449 in the Salinas Valley Order No. SP4449CAP Photograph by: Rick Hamman The loung car on the same train is seem at the same spot going away. Shopping Cart 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------
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