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Re: SP 4449
Author: Erik H.
Date: 10-03-2016 - 22:07

How about permanently moving the 4449 to San Francisco, build a small facility/museum just west of 4th & King in San Francisco, and then running it on Saturdays (and/or Sundays) as a CalTrain special down to San Jose, where the engine can actually run at 79 MPH like God and Lima intended, on its original home trackage?

It'd be all on CalTrain owned trackage so no UP or GWI involved; the 4449 would be somewhere where it has a historical tie to when the engine was built, and the CalTrain corridor has a lot more love for all things Southern Pacific than up north.

Let the Portland groups just try to get the SP&S 700 running...or maybe consider getting Woodburn's 1785 restored and run excursion trains on the Willamette Valley Railroad to Mount Angel and Silverton. Or the OR&N 197 to run on the Oregon Trunk.

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  SP 4449 Don B 10-01-2016 - 19:29
  Re: SP 4449 Cprr 10-01-2016 - 22:19
  Re: SP 4449 Arlen Sheldrake 10-01-2016 - 22:49
  Re: SP 4449 Dan 10-01-2016 - 23:06
  Re: SP 4449 Arlen Sheldrake 10-02-2016 - 08:55
  Re: SP 4449 An Observer 10-02-2016 - 09:19
  Re: SP 4449 Minority view 10-02-2016 - 10:40
  Re: SP 4449 Sal Iva 10-02-2016 - 14:07
  Re: SP 4449 California Dreaming 10-02-2016 - 14:52
  Re: SP 4449 An Observer 10-02-2016 - 16:36
  Re: SP 4449 Carol L Voss 10-02-2016 - 21:04
  Re: SP 4449 BN Oly 10-02-2016 - 21:50
  Re: SP 4449 Hot Steamer 10-03-2016 - 06:48
  Re: SP 4449 SteveO 10-03-2016 - 09:48
  Re: SP 4449 Lance 10-03-2016 - 09:11
  Re: SP 4449 rasputin 10-03-2016 - 10:23
  Re: SP 4449 George Andrews 10-03-2016 - 17:52
  Re: SP 4449 BN Oly 10-03-2016 - 17:57
  Re: SP 4449 Rasputin 10-03-2016 - 18:07
  Re: SP 4449 Daylight Fan 10-03-2016 - 19:34
  Re: SP 4449 Erik H. 10-03-2016 - 22:07
  Re: SP 4449 J Mann 10-04-2016 - 09:07
  Re: SP 4449 wsabo 10-04-2016 - 13:26
  Re: SP 4449 49fan 10-04-2016 - 13:51
  Re: SP 4449 844 10-04-2016 - 14:11
  Re: SP 4449 George Andrews 10-04-2016 - 17:13
  Re: CARB & steam locomotives Reality-based foamer 10-04-2016 - 18:57
  Re: CARB & steam locomotives mook 10-05-2016 - 07:51
  Re: SP 4449 Shortline Sammie 10-04-2016 - 19:51
  Re: SP 4449 - city of portland Arlen Sheldrake 10-05-2016 - 07:25
  Re: SP 4449 - city of portland George Andrews 10-05-2016 - 18:00
  Re: SP 4449 OT Local 10-04-2016 - 18:36
  Re: SP 4449 Pete 10-04-2016 - 19:06
  Re: SP 1785 David Dewey 10-04-2016 - 21:25
  Re: SP 4449 Voice of God 10-06-2016 - 07:11
  Re: SP 4449 Daylight Fan 10-07-2016 - 21:39


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