SOUTHERN PACIFIC DAYLIGHT LIMITED'S &
GS2-5 LIMA 4-8-4 LOCOMOTIVES
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Informational Note: This section contains all those 4400 series (#4411 - #4459) Southern Pacific Daylight GS-2 to GS-5 4-8-4 steam engines. If you are looking for the earlier 4-8-4 GS-1's, or the later GS-6 through GS-8 click here.
SP- #4410 New
Image, SP GS-2 #4410 on SF bound Daylight Order No. SP4410I A somewhat soft image taken in the shade, this view of the first new "Daylight" locomotive #4410 is a great historical record shot. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4411
Photo SP Daylight GS-2 #4411 first trial run Order No. SP4411P Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes This was a test run of the first GS-2 to arrive on the property. It is shown here on the headend of the Coast Local #72 leaving Watsonville Junction, California. Note the Lima test engineer in the gangway, early 1937. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4411 close up
Photo SP Daylight GS-2 #4411 Close up Order No. SP4411XP This was a test run of the first GS-2 to arrive on the property. It is shown here on the headend of the Coast Local #72 leaving Watsonville Junction, California. Note the Lima test engineer in the gangway, early 1937. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4411B New
Image, New SP Daylight GS-2 #4411 on #72 Order No. SP4411BI A new Southern Pacific GS-2 "Daylight Limited" locomotive #4411 is being broken in on Coast Divsion local passenger and express train #72. It is shown here approaching San Jose, California in early 1937. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4412
Photo, SP #4412 on test run of new Daylight Order No. SP4412P Photo, SP #4412 on test run of new Daylight - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4412NP Photograph by Fred C. Stoes Southern Pacific GS2 4-8-4, #4412, is seen on test run of the new "Daylight Limited" near Aromas, California. The train is running as second section of 2-70, 1937. The 1937 conversation over at the enginehouse at Watsonville Junction went something like this between Fred Stoes and the mechanic. "Yep, Fred! I'd be out their along the main somewhere today with your camera come train time for the #70. The brass are running a second section of the "Coaster." It is the first test run of the complete new 'Daylight Limited' and, of course, they don't want anyone to know!" In short order Fred found himself set up along the high curve at Aromas, California. It was cold from the high fog that hung over the Pajaro Valley. The wind was slightly blowing, moving the clouds around. And then he heard it. Off in the distance the mornful cry of the air horn on GS #4412 broke the silence of the quiet surrounding countryside. In almost no time at all, as if out of Camelot, there it was in its sleek warm colored body pounding the mainline rails at speed, 79mph. The shutter clicked. This stunning image was the result. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4412 "view A"
Image, SP #4412/Daylight, SLO-Horseshoe Curve Order No. SP4412AI Image, SP #4412/Daylight, SLO-Horseshoe Curve - 11" X 17" Order No. SP4412ANI Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes July 4th, 1937: The curve near Cuesta has just been reballasted. As the new Daylight tried to round the upgrade curve the locomotive drivers could not gain traction. Finally a 2-10-2 was called out from San Luis Obispo to add a little tractive effort. The entire time photographer Stoes just waited. The final picture. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17", Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] ------------------SP 4412 "view C" Image, 1st trial Daylight at Salinas, 1937 Order No. SP4412CI Arriving as the second section of westbound #69, the first public Daylight Limited arrives in Salinas. Note the children running alongside as the big engine comes to a halt. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------
SP 4412 "view D"
Image, 1st Daylight at Salinas, 1937 #2 Order No. SP4412DI The first public Daylight Limited has arrived in Salinas, California. Officials, politicos, Rodeo representatives, and the general public are on hand for the event. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4415 "view A"
Photo, SP #4415 on new Daylight Limited, 1937 Order No. SP4415AP Photograph by: Fred C: Stoes Southern Pacific #4415 on the Los Angeles bound Daylight is bringing on the charge as it picks up speed after coming out of the curving Pajaro Gap and into the " Valley of the Birds." Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4415 "view B"
Photo, SP #4415 on new Daylight Limited, 1937 Order No. SP4415BP Photograph by: Fred C: Stoes This original 1937 view depicts a brand new, high speed, eastbound, Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited" pickin' em up and layin' em down on the two track main near Logan, Califonia. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4415 "view C"
Image, Southern Pacific GS-2 loco #4415, dead line Order No. SP4415CI Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom A former "Golden State Lady", now stripped of all her adornment, rests on the dead line at Oakland, California August 8, 1953. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4420
Photo, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4420 train #72 Order No. SP4420AP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes Photographing a Daylight locomotive coming at you at 79mph means you have to determine the depth of field. In this shot #4420 is in focus at speed. Everything else is a blur! Under test, 1937. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4420 "view B"
Image, Southern Pacific GS-3 loco #4420, dead line Order No. SP4420BI Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom A former "Golden State Lady", now stripped of all her adornment, rests on the dead line at Oakland, California August 10, 1953. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4421
Photo, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4421, San Jose Order No. SP4421P Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes The engineer poses for the photographer in front of his new 4421 "Daylight Limited" locomotive at San Jose, 1937. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP-4421 "view A"
Photo, SP Noon Daylight #96/4421 is eastbound Order No. SP4421AP Photo, SP Noon Daylight #96/4421 is eastbound 11" X 14" Order No. SP4421ANP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes Just south of Gilroy, California the Southern Pacific Coast Division turns toward the ocean via a short pass through Pajaro Gap, rather than climb the mountain grade, to get to Salinas. In that short section of track is some of the most open country, with a fine a variety of scenery, in California. It was here that Fred Stoes liked to shoot his pictures. Also, the fact that he was a railroad fireman through this section meant he had lots of time to study potential good shots. This is one of them! The eastbound "Noon Daylight Limited" #96 rounds the curve into a cut near Aromas. Everything from black to white is visible in this 1941 view. Block signal 851 in the foreground, GS type 4421 with its drivers down and smoke back, the small farm town of Aromas in the background, and the Santa Cruz Mountains standing above it all. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4421 "view B"
Image, Southern Pacific GS3 4-8-4 loco #4421, 1939 Order No. SP4421BI Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom A new Southern Pacific GS3 4-8-4 Daylight locomotive #4421 is photographed near Palo Alto, California, Octobeer 12, of 1939. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4422
Image, Passing off orders to Daylight crew Order No. SP4422I Photo, Passing off orders to Daylight crew Order No. SP4422P Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes A nervous Watsonville Junction station agent stands firm on the platform as he passes off train orders to the crew in the cab of Southern Pacific Daylight locomotive #4422 and the conductor further back in the train, 1937. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11" Image, Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 7" by 11" Photo, Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4426
Image, Southern Pacific #4426 in Daylight livery Order No. SP4426BI Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom A very graceful "Golden State Lady", GS-5 4-8-4, Daylight locomotive poses on the line at San Jose, California, January 16, 1955. No doubt this engine had been relagated to Sanh Jose - San Francisco Peninsula commute service. This researcher finds it ironic that these magnificant locomotives were scrapped so early in their useful life in favor of the early diesels just because of required government modernization. The GS-4's/GS-5's were only 12-14 years old and still had many miles on them| It took four new F-7's to equal the ability of one 4-8-4. ...Rick Hamman Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4427
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4427/Daylight Order No. SP4427I Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4427/Daylight - 11" X 17" Order No. SP4427NI Phoograph by: Fred C. Stoes Southern Pacific "GS" 4-8-4, #4427, passes the San Jose Roundhouse with the New "Daylight Limited," train #99, bound for San Francisco. 5:00pm, Sunday, June 27, 1938. Note the engines in the roundhouse, the old automobiles to the right and a few folks who turned out to see this depression breaker! Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17", Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4428
Image, SP "Daylight Ltd.," #2 San Jose, 1938 Order No. SP4428BI Photographer: Fred C. Stoes Southern Pacific newly built 4-8-4 locomotive #4428 is seen on the headend of the second-section #98, the "Daylight Limited" as it departs San Jose, California one summer morning in August of 1938. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4432
Image, Southern Pac. #4432 on Train #71. Order No. SP4432I Photograph by: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom It is late afternoon in San Mateo, California. Southern Pacific Daylight Locomotive 4-8-4 #4432 is captured on the headend of Coastal Local train #71 bound for San Francisco. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4437
Photo, SP GS #4437 on Daylight at speed, 1946 Order No. SP4437P Photo, SP GS #4437 on Daylight at speed, 1946 - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4437NP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes This 1946 photograph depicts a high speed, southbound, Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited" charging the main through the Pajaro Valley at 79 miles per hour! The white, low, laid back, exhaust of the #4437 tells the viewer it was a cold, crisp morning and a very fast train. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4437A
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 GS-4 in black, LA, 1954 Order No. SP4437AI Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 GS-4 in black, LA, 1954 - 11" X 17" Order No. SP4437ANI Just thirteen years old, this Southern Pacific gallant steed #4437, relagated to lessor duties, will soon be no more! January 1, 1954. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17", Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4444
Photo, SP GS-4 #4444/Peninsula Commute #122 Order No. SP4444P Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes No longer in Daylight livery and missing its metal, this powerful 237-ton locomotive provides all the punch this six-car train of old 1919, 60-ft. long, Harriman's would ever need on the level. The train is San Jose bound, near Sunnyvale, California. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4444 "view A"
Image, SP 4-8-4 Loco #4444A, San Francisco Order No. SP4444AI Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom In this great C. W. Jernstrom shot Southern Pacific GS-4 #4444 poses at San Francisco ready to take on an afternoon Peninsula commute train for San Jose. All of the body trim and color is gone but it is still a beautiful Lima locomotive. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4447
Photo, SP GS-4 4447/Daylight Limited at 79mph Order No. SP4447P Photo, SP GS-4 4447/Daylight Limited at 79mph 11" X 14" Order No. SP4447NP Photograph by: Freds C. Stoes It is a very cold 1947 winter morning in the Pajaro Valley. Fred Stoes has once again returned to his favorite place at Eaton's Crossing to capture a shot of the "Daylight Limited," #98, as it comes out of the Aromas cut at speed (79mph). Drivers down, smoke straight back, the 20-car train in bright sunlight, another image captured for posterity. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4449, 1940's
Image, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4449, 1940's Order No. SP4449I Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes An older 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 early 1950'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", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4449 "view A" 1950
Image, SP 4-8-4 #4449 on #71 San Mateo, 1950 Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom In this great C. W. Jernstrom shot of Southern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 #4449 at San Mateo, California the Lima Locomotive Golden State Lady works the Coastal Passenger and express train #71. March 1, 1950. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4451
Photo, Southern Paciic #4451 on Daylight #96 Order No. SP4451P Photo, Southern Paciic #4451 onDaylight #96 - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4451NP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes The bright sun has finally broken through the morning clouds of fog in the Pajaro Valley. In this almost perfectly framed view a Southern Pacific GS4, #4451, is seen on the "Noon Daylight" near Eaton Crossing at speed, 79mph Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------
SP 4451 close up
Photo, Southern Paciic #4451 Close up on #96 Order No. SP4451XP Photo, Southern Paciic #4451 Close up on #96 - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4451XNP The bright sun has finally broken through the morning clouds of fog in the Pajaro Valley. In this almost perfectly framed view a Southern Pacific GS4, #4451, is seen on the "Noon Daylight" near Eaton Crossing at speed, 79mph Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4452
Image, Southern Pacific #4452 on Daylight Order No. SP4452I In this nice shot by a Southern Pacific photographer in 1945, the Daylight Limited, pulled by GS-4 4452, is seen crossing the Pajaro River Bridge at MP 92.37. This bridge was the third structure at this crossing and built only a few years before this shot. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4454
Image, Southern Pacific GS-4 4-8-4 Loco #4454 Order No. SP4454I Photographer: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 locomotive #4454 sits a long string of Harrimans just south of Palo Alto on a siding between the double track main line. The "X" indicates this is an extra train being used as a football special. The train came down from San Francisco to the stop known as Stanford (University). It hung around until the end of the game and then took all the fans back. October 3, 1952. The football specials were the only trains that ever stopped at the Stanford station point. It was not a normal stop for the Peninsula trains. Likewise, the normal trains coming from both directions would stop during football games. The stop was just two blocks from the Stanford Universit stadium. Before political correctness the team was known as the "Stanford Indians" for over 75 years. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP- #4454 "view A"
Image, Southern Pac. GS-4 4-8-4 Loco #4454 0n #71 Order No. SP4454AI Salinas, California, February 14, 1955: Southern Pacific GS-4 pauses on San Francisco bound mail train #71. It is just three years later than when the SP4454 view was taken above but now in drab black its just not the same engine! Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4458
Photo, SP #98, 4-8-4 #4458/Daylight, 1947, drivers up Order No. SP4458P Photo, SP #98, 4-8-4 #4458/Daylight, 1947, drivers up - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4458NP Photograph by Fred C. Stoes This 1947 photograph depicts a high speed, southbound, Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited" charging the main through the Pajaro Valley at 79 miles per hour! The 4-8-4 #4458 was the heaviest class of Daylight locomotive built. Because of its experimental Timken Roller bearings on engine and tender, it was classed a GS-5. Otherwise, it and the 29 GS-4 were the same. Locomotive #4459 the other GS-5, was equiped with SKF experimental roller bearings. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4458
Photo, SP #98, 4-8-4 #4458/Daylight, 1947 drivers dowm Order No. SP4458AP Photo, SP #98, 4-8-4 #4458/Daylight, 1947 drivers down - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4458ANP Photograph by Fred C. Stoes This 1947 photograph depicts a high speed, southbound, Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited" charging the main through the Pajaro Valley at 79 miles per hour! The 4-8-4 #4458 was the heaviest class of Daylight locomotive built. Because of its experimental Timken Roller bearings on engine and tender, it was classed a GS-5. Otherwise, it and the 29 GS-4 were the same. Locomotive #4459 the other GS-5, was equiped with SKF experimental roller bearings. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4458 "view B"
Photo, Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4458 at Logan Order No. SP4458BP Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes The Southern Pacific "Daylight Limited" is seen at Logan, California, home of Granite Rock and the Logan Quarry. The train, pulled by 4-8-4 #4458, has just crossed the Pajaro River and run through Chittenden Pass. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4458"view C"
Image, Southern Pac. #4458 on Daylight Ltd. Order No. SP4458CI Image, Southern Pac. #4458 on Daylight Ltd. - 11" X 17" Order No. SP4458CNI Photograph by: C. W. (Bill) Jernstrom In this early morning view photographer C. W. Jernstrom captures Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4458 on the Daylight Limited bursting out of the dark tunnel and into the bright sunlight at Bayshore, California, May 30, 1954. Shopping Cart 8.5" by 11", Price - $ 5.00 [Add To Cart] 11" by 17", Price - $8.50 [Add To Cart] --------------------SP 4459
Photo, SP 4459/#98 Daylight Limited at 79mph Order No. SP4459P Photo, SP 4459/#98 Daylight Limited at 79mph - 11" X 14" Order No. SP4459P Photograph by: Fred C. Stoes Southern Pacific 4-8-4 #4459 is on the head end of the "Daylight Limited", #98, as it charges the main through the Pajaro Valley at 79 miles-per-hour. The 4459 was SKF roller bearinged on engine and tender and classed as a GS-5 because of it. Sister locomotive #4458 was the other GS-5, but with Timken roller bearings. Shopping Cart 7" by 11", Price - $ 6.75 [Add To Cart] 11" by 14", Price - $10.00 [Add To Cart] --------------------
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