99, the Coast Daylight, through Burlingame at something close to 79 mph. The basic train was an short haul mail train with a combine for local passengers between Sacramento and Tracy (not Fresno). 11×17 photograph of the 1981 Daylight Excursion train that traveled to the inauguration of the Sacramento Railroad Museum. It hugged the Pacific Ocean with great views. Linking Los Angeles and San Francisco on a glorious daylight trip, streaking along the edge of the Pacific Ocean for more than a hundred breathless miles. 4449 left Portland on April 25, 1981, bound for Sacramento. A grand west coast train adventure, en route daily between Los Angeles and Seattle, the Coast Starlight train passes through Santa Barbara, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento and Portland. It was my 75th birthday, so why not charter a train for all my friends. 53 & 54) were planned as as a direct connection for day passengers between Los Angeles and the state capital at Sacramento. The SP also used an E8 unit numbered 6018 and was in service from 1954 to 1968 and was retired in 1968. The new connecting cars started operating with the inaugurated in July of 1941 of the Oakland to Los Angeles … If I am not mistaken, this was train 53/54 but not sure. It is significant in that this is the first time that the 4449 operated in Daylight colors, having been repainted from the American Freedom Train colors of red, white and blue. This might also come under the heading of open space or orchard nostalgia, when they actually grew something other than build The Southern Pacific’s Streamliner Coast Daylight was the West’s finest train in the 1940s, 50s, and early 1960s. SP's GP9 3006 running long hood forward with the Sacramento Daylight approaching Lathrop, March 1971. April 1971 timetable for the San Joaquin Daylight and the Sacramento Daylight passenger trains at Streamliner Schedules. The Daylight train was a site to behold. For nine days, from May 2 through May 10, 1981, 4449 and other trains joined in the Railfair celebrations in Sacramento. Mundo in the subject line means the following photos were taken by Trainorders.com member mundo. Pulling a sold out excursion train, engine No. The Sacramento Daylight was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad, part of the family of "Daylights" which included the San Joaquin Daylight, Shasta Daylight, Coast Daylight, and Sunbeam.It carried train numbers 53 and 54. Thanks to this train's popularity an entire fleet was launched in the succeeding years with names like the Sacramento Daylight, San Joaquin Daylight, and Shasta Daylight. Widely regarded as one of the most spectacular of all train routes, the Coast Starlight … Train Number: 51: • Sacramento Daylight (Sacramento to Lathrop) ... 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