Although the Daylights used SP’s Central Station for their first two years of operation, they were arriving and departing from the new Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal by 1939, Fourteen years later in 1953 rivals Union Pacific and Santa Fe dieselized their California operations leaving Southern Pacific to bring the age of mainline steam in the Golden State to a close. Surrounded by diesel power No.99’s GS4 makes a sure fooled start at 8:15 AM precisely, During World War 2, and the Korean Conflict, the GS4 4-8-4s had kept time with a Daylight 20 cars long. Train lengths in the 1950s averaged 15 or 16 cars.
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