SP Daylight 4449 - Milwaukee to Minneapolis

[pm1225cp]

Great video!

[WorldOfNothin]

lol Left an hour late and was almost an hour early!!! Take about highballing it!!! they must have just let the throttle go and let her run lol

[Conductor261]

Great Video!! My friends and I must have been standing right next to you in Minnesota City because we all got that same shot!! I love all of your shots and to think the 4449 was just out here in 09 still blows me away! I had a great time chasing and working on here when she was here in town!

[typebangin]

@Conductor261 Yeah, I was closest to the tracks and there were probably 2-3 guys next to me. Hard to believe it was already 2 years ago.  I hope 261 is running again in 2012.

[Conductor261]

@typebangin Yup that was my friends and I standing next to you! Yeah 261 should be up and running by late spring or Early Summer of 2012! :)

[CSX2057]

How fast that train was going!?

[parkybob22]

Oh how i wish they would bring back streamlined passenger service :)

[mortdk]

Amazing footage. And nice sceneries/landscapes too ... :-)

[46Nailik]

great work!

while watching this video you can truly feel the speed :)

[521wurlitzer]

To bigdan4712..... FYI I have ridden behind 4449 at better than 70 mph many times. This locomotive the way it is maintained by the Friends of 4449 and Doyle is every bit as capable of speeds of in excess of 90mph as when it was built. Amtrash unit is probably in worse mechanical shape than this 65+ year old locomotive.

[bigdan4712]

its going faster than the cars on the highway!!! but i gurantee that amtrak unit is doing most of the work that thing is getting old

[Trackagerights]

Is this the run to the Fr of 261? Or a run FOR them? Cause it's all MILW, sans the MKT, and I KNOW she left with more than that when we setn her out of Michigan

[typebangin]

@Trackagerights This was a ferry move (w/ tickets sold) to return the 4449 and Friends of the 261 coaches to Minneapolis after Train Festival in Owosso, MI. This consist traveled from Chicago to Minneapolis. I believe the other coaches were dropped off in Chicago.

[Trackagerights]

@typebangin Ah, makes sense.

[shininghappyperson7]

i wonder what the average every day person thinks when they see a steam locomotive at speed??????

[trainfan64]

Great video. Brings back memories when I saw this engine in 2009.

[4202EJW]

Amazing video!

[trainmaster55]

Ok cool! Thank you!

Alex

[trainmaster55]

What kind of camcorder do you use? It takes awesome video!

Alex

[SkipW]

Forget the swine flu shot, if you have SP4449 steam fever, this is the cure! & Thanks for posting this !

[shininghappyperson7]

very nice pacing scene i like that you get to see what the 4449 can do great video!!!!!!!!

[salemcripple]

This is how great machines should be remembered. On the road, doing what they were meant to do (while still being cared for of course). Not coped up in a museum someplace.

[deloreanman14]

@salemcripple Amen. They are amazingly majestic machines that can't be fully appreciated until they are in motion. The fact that 4449 was saved at all was a sheer stroke of luck. If it hadn't been for one fateful phone call, nobody would know what a Daylight steam locomotive was.

[salemcripple]

@deloreanman14 I think rail fans would still know what the daylight was. I know i would! Especially since i live in the city where it is stored, and has made it's "home" since it's decommissioning.

[deloreanman14]

@salemcripple - People would know what it was but I think it's best if you compare it to a Pennsylvania RR T1 steam locomotive; around 50 were build and none were preserved. I can't help but look at that and say, "Wow...must have been amazing to see that in real life."

[salemcripple]

@deloreanman14 exactly! And yet you get people who say they should be scrapped or pent up, collecting dust in the corner of some rail museum somewhere.

[Conrail6370]

How are your sales on the 425 dvd's?

Len.

PS. Great pace work! 5/5

[drfunk411]

Sick. Great vid. That hd really helps pick up the running gear motion on the pacing. Putting it out on dvd?

[gyjg6564167]

Caught her going through Brookfield that day. Boy she was moving!

[DanielVolker]

Great job!!!!!!!!

[Stetsonater]

how fast was 4449 bookin it???

[typebangin]

Around 65mph most of the time