Southern Pacific 4449 - Cascade Daylight

Southern Pacific GS-4 4449 "Daylight" leads an excursion from Portland, OR through the Columbia River Gorge and along the Deschutes River to Bend, OR in June 2017, in what is currently the most recent mainline excursion led by the world famous locomotive.
The video starts a day before the departure for Bend, as the 4449 and crew get the consist ready to leave the following day. The first day shows the 4449 in full stride as it rolls along the Columbia River showing off every bit of when she was designed to do. After the Gorge, the train slowly makes its way along the Deschutes River before cruising into Bend. After laying over in Bend, the Daylight headed back to Portland as it does the same route in reverse with the chase beginning at Redmond, OR. The return trip saw the 4449 having to wait for regular traffic in the Gorge, which allowed more time to get ahead of the engine for additional shots.
Enjoy this look at 4449 running from Portland to Bend on the 2017 Cascade Daylight!
Provided by Hunter Lohse. 

[@thunderbird1921]

Amazing footage, especially the scene of 4449 and her consist in the farmlands! Here's hoping the grand old lady gets to run again sooner than later.

[@matthewsturm9170]

This is a great video! The footage of making up the train at Union Station is some of the most interesting 4449 footage I have ever seen.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@mattstrainroom]

I was on this trip - what an incredible 2 days. I was assigned to the Amtrak Great Dome. That is me at 17:06 in the vestibule of the PRR Colonial Crafts. Beautiful scenery, wonderful people. I hope the stars align for an encore!

[@The_BBQ1]

The footage of it switching around Union Station is really neat

[@kptrains]

Nice footage of Southern Pacific 4449 Daylight from 2017 👍

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@ARP_GA]

Dude, these are some awesome shots. That second to last shot at the river was beautiful as well. Keep up these videos, man, they'll never go old.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed, plenty more is on the way

[@buffaloarearailfan9928]

Excellent footage of SP 4449!

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@brendenkennedy4304]

Wow a great video as always keep up the great work. I personally love the 4449. The Daylight is one of my favorite steam locomotives of all and a close second favorite for me would be the SP&S 700.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Thank you very much

[@wolfgangpfeilergartenbahnd6530]

Greatly filmed the Southern Pacific 4449 - Cascade Daylight.

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed

[@amtrakandcsxrailfanning164]

great catches and video of 4449 trip to Bend trip and return nice whstle action too

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@artiek1177]

Regardless of the name, love those 4-8-4’s

[@jacksalvin364]

The trip ran from Portland to Bend, Oregon, and return.

[@TrainsStorms]

Amazing engine 😁

[@williamsquires3070]

Think of how much pulling power you’d have if you coupled up all the operational 4-8-4 steam locomotives; SP #4449, AT&SF #3751, U.P #844, and N&W #611. I’d call that, “The Grand old Ladies of Steam” tour!

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

It would be a similar amount of power to coupling five modern freight diesels together

[@williamsquires3070]

@@DynamoProductions-trains yeah, but much more fun! 😄💙

[@SimonTog]

Nice video :)

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@skylersknight9124]

It would be neat to see daylight and 611 together i know it probably wont happen because of the distance maybe the big boy and 1218 too that would be a fun event

[@momhavefun]

Wow it’s finally back in service

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

This was taken 7 years ago...

[@momhavefun]

@@HunterLohseRRVideos when

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

@@momhavefun 2017

[@momhavefun]

@@HunterLohseRRVideos oh

[@elijahglasser1421]

brilliant train

[@chriscarruth5147]

What whistle did 4449 have?

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

It's an SP original, if I recall correctly it is off one of the GS5s

[@PatrioticCoservativeAmerican]

When will she run again?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Presumably a demonstration at ORHF.

[@PrestonWade-y6c]

She is beautiful it's hard to believe we got ride of a machine that is very powerful and capable and scrap them because of money

[@SimplyTakuma]

What is 4449 doing now?

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

Still in Portland

[@EdisonRailfanner]

What do you think its max speed was?

[@raysyndrome7209]

phew, thank goodness it's still running. i was wondering what happened to this beaut. my favorite american steamer. i hope i get to drive one one day

[@T128Productions]

This was actually recorded back in 2017.

[@raysyndrome7209]

@@T128Productions oh no...

[@GoofyVirginian630]

It’s still operational but it’s just landlocked in ORHF because it’s too heavy for the tracks

[@raysyndrome7209]

@@GoofyVirginian630 landlocked as in it can't move from where it's at?

[@GoofyVirginian630]

@@raysyndrome7209 I believe so, but nothing bad is going to happen to it. Hopefully there will be more opportunities for it to run in the future when the tracks can handle it.

[@Strasburg_Railroad_89_Fan]

Where I can visit that Engine?

[@jacksonsdrones]

Is SP 4449 still in Use? 🤔

[@zavencornelius7022]

It is still in serviceable condition, but with how cost one railroads are they don’t allow her to run anymore really even short line don’t let her because she is to heavy for the rails

[@HunterLohseRRVideos]

SP 4449 is at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center and is maintained in operating condition

[@DynamoProductions-trains]

They restored it and ran it on the mainline

[@jacksonsdrones]

@@DynamoProductions-trains Thanks! Great Vid btw! Awesome shots as Always!

[@jacksonsdrones]

@@zavencornelius7022 Thanks for the Info!