This was my "birthday" train:

Please do not remove this KZfaq! This film is apart of my childhood and I remember watching this almost everyday all day.( Not joking I was that obsessed). They removed another copy of this but please don’t remove this one.

The 4449 shaped my childhood! I don't know who'd I'd be today without this locomotive! It is indeed the most beautiful train in the world.

Once the GS-4 steamers were replaced by diesels for premium passenger service, some were used for more mundane service for a few years like the San Francisco to San Jose commuter run stripped of the fancy panels and paint. Massively overpowered for this service, and scared me as a child when they passed.

This Train was my birthday present, 1955. Glendale, Ca to Santa Barbara, Ca. Then back to Glendale the same day. It was a Sunday, I turned seven years old. The Train, at that time, was pulled by an E9 . . . . . Thanks, Dad.

That's a lovely presentation. Thank you.

Great video of the Daylight & the history of it. My most favorite Amtrak route is the Pacific Surfliner/Coast Starlight Route. I have a Kato N scale Daylight number 4449 steam locomotive & the 10 car Morning Daylight set that I’m waiting for to be returned to me from the Kato factory in Schaumburg, IL after being repaired. The Daylight set I have is my N scale excursion train & my Amtrak set is the Coast Starlight on my N scale model railroad, the Pacific West Coast railroad. It will be focused on the 1980’s & first half of the 1990’s. It will be Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Western Pacific, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific & BCRail. My ultimate goal is to have the entire West Coast railraod route from the Mexican border South of San Diego to Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Such a nice film, enjoyed it very much to watch. It´s a pitty that such wonderfull passengertrains no longer exist. It was another style of travelling and the time ran slowlier. I would like to see that those trains come back on rail to reduce airtraffic and cartraffic on long distances. People should take the time for watching sceneries and landscapes they are travelling through.

My dad Grew up with this railroad in San jose. The Railroad Itself Congraduated My Grandma On his Birth.

6/27/2022

This documentary is amazing, in the last part, they show me an exciting part! It's incredible!

I have this exact tape at home. Very much and enjoyable. Thanks for bringing it to KZfaq.

Just imagine

Saw her parked overnite at Whitefish, Mt a few years ago; bellowing steam the next morning frightened my young granddaughter when blowing her cylinders.

Huh, never thought i'd see this amazing tape on KZfaq. Thank you!

I never rode the Morning Daylight but I did ride the Shasta Daylight between Oakland and Dunsmuir CA back in the early 1950's. Twice my mother, younger brother and I traveled north to visit my aunt (mother's sister) who lived in Siskiyou County California.

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this with us.

Love it! Just got my new N scale 4449 to replace the older generation 4450 from Kato. I run a lot of it on my layout. Just posted one of it passing an Alco PA/B/ A Shasta Daylight. I love this film, it inspires me.

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Thanks for a great video,very interesting and informational === I really enjoyed it