Southern Pacific lives on as a model railroad for many model railroaders. My N scale model railroad has Southern Pacific, Santa Fe freight locomotives as well as both Santa Fe & Southern Pacific cabooses. M N scale excursion train is the Morning Daylight pulled by SP Daylight 4-8-4 number4449.
At 0:23, there is a picture of the golden spike on the transcontinental railroad. This is funny since the Southern Pacific did not work on the Transcontinental Railroad, Union Pacific and the Central Pacific did.
lyrics: when they drove that golden spike back in 1869 it opened up the american west southern pacific line thousand miles of wilderness heard the hammers ringin' and the voices of the candy dancers sing southern pacific, roll on, roll on from chicago trough the rockies america's your home portland to new orleans all along the golden crisp southern pacific the spirt that won the west all spikes and ties went down in time the son of fiddles is real with the rivers stitched together with a million miles of steel right on the clock went rolling stock its keepin' this country great long as theres a USA its people will haul the freight southern pacific, roll on, roll on from chicago to the rockies america's your home portland to new orleans all along the golden crisp southern pacific the sprit that won the west cotton belt T&L and then the rio grande but all the other proud and strong like a couple and to hand pullin every grade and curve single heart and mind they make sure the job gets done out on the sp line southern pacific roll on, roll on from chicago through the rockies america's your home portland to new orleans all along the golden crisp southern pacific the sprit that won the west so roll on big eyed lady to the mountain and the plains roll on man and women with tradition in your face keep the proud wheels turning on all across this great land blow that whistle loud and long to the futures in our hands southern pacific roll on, roll on from chicago trough the rockies america's your home portland to new orleans all along the golden crisp southern pacific the spirt that won the west
The greatest railroad ever, I wish that UP merger would have went the other way with the Espee staying intact. The Espee was a unique railroad that no others could match and I miss it dearly. #SP4EVER
Technically that is kind of how it happened. UP’s owner bought SP, and merged the UP into the SP. Then SP changed their name, as Union Pacific is such a historic name. This is also what happened with Missouri Pacific, MP bought UP, and all MP employees took over UP, then MP changed their name to UP.
@@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos SP 4449 is one of my three favorite steam locomotives. I have a Kato N scale SP 4449 Daylight Locomotive which is my excursion locomotive pulling the 10 car Daylight set on my N scale Pacific West Coast model railroad in the early stages.
