Southern Pacifics’s Coast Daylight • 54 mins • colour

£18.25

Superb film on what Southern Pacific called ‘The Most Beautiful Train in the World’, on its journey up the West Coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

Featuring film from 1937 to the mid 1950s, this is all steam, and shows a number of SP’s steam loco classes, but obviously the GS4 ‘Daylight’ 4-8-4s predominate, at the head of trains of 16 to 20 coaches.

Really good viewing!

See also:

Southern Pacific’s Shasta Route circa 1950 - Vol. 1

Southern Pacific’s Shasta Route circa 1950 - Vol. 2

Southern Pacific's San Joaquin Route circa 1950