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The Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive passes through the Vancouver Amtrak station at midday Monday. It will be in Vancouver and the Columbia River Gorge for a few days for a video shoot.
The SP 4449 is a steam locomotive, with enough push from its 300 psi boiler to run at a brisk 100 mph. But Southern Pacific was an all-oil-burning railroad, so there wasn’t any coal firing that ...
The only surviving GS-4 class of steam locomotives will depart from Chicago at 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time and is expected to pass through Kalamazoo between 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., said Mark ...
The SP 4449 is a streamlined steam locomotive built in 1941 and donated to the city in 1958, after which it was restored by volunteers. It has also been used as a American Freedom Train locomotive ...
The round trips from Oaks Park to the center and back will start on Nov. 23, powered by the historic Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive that volunteers began starting up a full two days before.
FARGO Fargo's rails will take a step back in the past this week when a steam locomotive rolls through town. The Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 will make a stop in Fargo today and Thursday ...
Headed from Oregon to Owosso, the 475,000-pound Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotive passed through Kalamazoo Sunday and made at brief stop at the train station.
SP 4449, a restored steam locomotive built in 1941, pulls out of Grand Forks on Wednesday afternoon bound for Train Festival 2009 in Owosso, Michigan.
Fargo's rails will take a step back in the past this week when a steam locomotive rolls through town. The Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 will make a stop in Fargo today and Thursday during its ...
The appearance by the SP 4449 is a rare chance to see one of three city-owned steam locomotives, which are usually kept behind locked doors at the Brooklyn train yard in Southeast Portland.
The Southern Pacific Daylight No. 4449 steam locomotive that stopped in Fargo on Wednesday was parked on the west edge of the North Dakota State University campus. A story on Page C1 of Wednesday ...
The museum also cares for three historic steam locomotives owned by the City of Portland--SP 4449, famous for pulling the American Freedom Train in 1975-76; the SP&S 700 and the OR&N 197.