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boatsnblondes
03-19-2006, 10:41 AM
No replacement for these two....Chevy Camaro, getting harder to find, and the SP 4449, last of it's kind....taken in Sherwood, Oregon, for the classic car show...for those of you who have never seen a live steam engine, I highly recommend it, there is nothing like them...they are pure power.....I have run several of them...and before they finally disappear, thanks to our local environmental wackos out there, I think you should get your sons out there to see one go by also....
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Here is a full shot of SP 4449 in her new native surrounding....a little history here....4449 is a true thoroughbred. She hauled the Southern Pacifics' fastest passenger trains up and down the coast between LA and Oakland, along the line now used by Amtrak to take you to Santa Barbara and on up to San Louis Obispo. Back then, she was known as a "Daylight" engine, because of the way the sunlight lit up her scheme as she ran along the coast..The daylight route still exists, but she is the only one to survive the scrappers torch in the 60's..she is considered to be the most beautiful steam engine ever made by most historians..myself included...
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