SPECTRUM BY BACHMAN HO-SCALE CAR #3050 SOUTHERN PACIFIC "DAYLIGHT "LITED COMBINE

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SPECTRUM BY BACHMAN PLUS HO-SCALE SOUTHERN PACIFIC "DAYLIGHT" internal overhead LIGHTED COMBINE PASSENGER CAR #3050, Two tone Orange and Red w/Silver lettering and Black Reporting Marks, "SOUTHERN PACIFIC" Banner and SP #3050 on the side. Southern Pacific Combine Passenger car #3050. Built in early 1960's. This different road number from the #3051 makes a nice pair in your consist. Item No. Bachman1 This item is out of stock at the manufacturer Features: 4Includes full lighted interiors, 412-wheel electrical pickup, 4rubber diaphragms, 4diecast free-rolling trucks, 4separately applied metal handrails, 4full underbody detailing, 4body-mounted swing coupler pockets and 4RP2 wheel contours. The Daylight, Southern Pacific’soriginal of its succeeding fleet of trains with the Daylight name, became perhaps the most successful and recognized of all time even rivaling the Santa Fe’s legendary Super Chief . Interestingly, however, only one Daylight was a long distance train as the rest were regional trains which served several different Californian cities. The popularity of the Daylight was incredibly high, even through the early 1960s although by the latter half of that decade the Southern Pacific began greatly reducing services and amenities on the fleet as patronage declined. Today, a version of this successful fleet of trains remains under Amtrak as the likewise very popular Coast Starlight . 4449 was the last engine manufactured in Southern Pacific's first order of GS-4 (Golden State/General Service) locomotives. 4449 was placed into service on May 30, 1941, and spent its early career assigned to the Coast Daylight , SP's premier passenger train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, California , but it also pulled many other of the SP's named passenger trains. After the arrival of newer GS-4s and GS-5s , 4449 was assigned to Golden State Route and Sunset Route passenger trains. 4449 was re-assigned to the Coast Division in the early 1950s. One of 4449's career highlights happened on October 17, 1954, when 4449 and sister 4447 pulled a special 10 car train for the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society from Los Angeles to Owenyo, California , and return. In 1955, after being one of the last few Daylight steam engines in Daylight livery, 4449 was painted black and silver and its side skirting (a streamlining feature of the Daylight steam engines) was removed due to dieselization of the Coast Daylight in January of that year. 4449 was then assigned to Southern Pacific's San Joaquin Valley line, occasionally pulling passenger trains such as the San Joaquin Daylight between Oakland and Bakersfield as well as fast freight and helper service. 4449 was semi-retired from service on September 24, 1956, and was kept as an emergency back-up locomotive until it was officially retired on October 2, 1957, and was placed in storage along with several other GS class engines near Southern Pacific's Bakersfield roundhouse . In 1981, 4449 was returned to its original "Daylight" colors for the first Railfair at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California . In 1984, 4449 pulled an all Daylight-painted train from Portland to New Orleans, Louisiana , to publicize the World's Fair , making it the longest steam train excursion in US history. In 1986, 4449 went to Hollywood to appear in " Tough Guys ", and pulled business trains for the Southern Pacific. 4449 had another famous moment in 1989 when 4449 and Union Pacific 844 (another famous 4-8-4 steam engine) made a side-by-side entrance into the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1989 for the station's 50th anniversary celebrations; the two locomotives then raced each other on Santa Fe 's and Southern Pacific's parallel main lines through Cajon Pass , with 4449 eventually taking the lead. 4449 returned to Railfair in Sacramento in 1991 and again in 1999. In 2000, 4449 was repainted black and silver for a Burlington Northern Santa Fe employee appreciation special,... read more

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