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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
originally posted by Martin Pal
Here's a two headlight example Wig-Wag.
Los Angeles, 1984
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What a beauty.
I found another view of the float
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In 1937 you could go see the new Daylight at Expo Park before the 1st day of service. That must've been fun:
LAT 3-9-37
On March 21, 1937 at exactly 8:15 SP had dual christianing ceremonies before the northbound and southbound trains set off from LA and SF. In LA, Olivia de Havilland did the honors:
from the book "4449 The Queen of Steam"
This would be the old SP Central depot.
Here it is leaving Central:
Queen of Steam
The crew proudly posing at Central 3-21-37
11-15-37 ad for the train. I'm sure it was a thrill.
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A Daylight near Lockheed
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I got to pet the tame 4449 when it came to California for Railfair in 1999
Suitcase full of 1940s True Story and Daring Detective magazines. (I'm not kidding). According to the Queen of Steam book, the single-bulb Mars light was replaced by the double-bulb type in the 1950s.
4449 is I think the only surviving engine that's still painted in Daylight colors (most of the time). The other surviver I'm aware of is a single-light "war baby" in the St. Louis Museum of Transportation and doesn't do excusions like 4449.
http://http://www.railarchive.net/ra...ges/sp4460.jpg