Daylight Express, 4449 in Steam by Skyfire Video

SKU: DVD-SF-DAYLIGHT
(2 customer reviews)

$29.95

Cameras on 4449, crew interviews…this video is legendary.

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Producer

SkyFire Video

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Yes

Run Time

1 hour 43 minutes

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Turn back the pages of history to a time when the haunting sound of train whistles carried in on the evening breeze. Daylight Express is high adventure on America’s last remaining Daylight steam engine. You’ll traverse Oregon’s rugged, snow covered Cascades, Forge through 23 hard rock tunnels and across high steel trestles into the precipitous Sacramento River Gorge. Recorded with cameras mounted outside the locomotives and inside the engineer’s cab, this timeless adventure documentary generates volcano sizes steam clouds as you climb the West’s most beautiful territory. You’ll meet the crew, look up at giant steel drive wheels and marvel at what historians call, “The most beautiful steam train in the world”. This exceptional stereo sound track was painstakingly recorded with digital PCM processor, From spectacular scenery to the nostalgic sound of the 1940’s. and 1950’s. DAYLIGHT EXPRESS is an exhilarating video treasure you’ll watch over and over again.

2 reviews for Daylight Express, 4449 in Steam by Skyfire Video

  1. Jeremy C. Schultz

    This program is most likely one of the “classics of ALL classics” when it comes to railfan videography. Jim Mitchell and his Skyfire crew did a superb job with not just “Steaming Up The New River Gorge”, but also THIS documentary… one of my very first VHS tapes back when I was very young… and seeing the full length of it on DVD today is still something I can’t stop being excited about. SP #4449 and her matching consist traversing the high, rugged Cascade Mountains never gets old! The “Northwest” scenery there in Oregon is some of the best on God’s green earth!

  2. rickyfreni

    Southern Pacific Daylight 4449 traveled from Portland, Oregon to the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento for Railfair ‘91. It was also for the Red & orange 4-8-4’s 50th anniversary. Interviews with Doyle McCormick & the team are shown as well as tons of onboard footage from the cab, in the coaches, & even helicopter angles. There was also a 30 minute version of this program in 1993 called riding the rails. All in all, Jim Mitchell wrote and narrated this program this excellent.

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