Event: Desert Center Estate Auction. [citation needed], During its time on display, 4449 was repeatedly vandalized and had many of its external parts stolen,[7] including its builder's plates and whistle. The train left its home at Brooklyn Roundhouse on July 2 and left the city of Portland the following day on July 3. With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith. Carvey is also known for his roles in the films Tough Guys (1986), Wayne's World (1992) and its sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993). In 1986, 4449 went to Hollywood to appear in Tough Guys, and pulled business trains for the Southern Pacific. [22] The Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation, a partnership of non-profit organizations that owned or maintained historic rolling stock at the roundhouse, began a campaign in late 2009 to construct a permanent, publicly accessible engine house for the City of Portland's steam locomotives. The historic 2,500-mile move from Portland to Owosso was arranged by the Friends of the 4449, Amtrak, Steam Railroading Institute of Owosso, and the Friends of the 261. Both are in for a shock at how much the world has changed from 1956 to 1986: clothing, sexual lifestyles (their old bar is now an openly gay-men's club, women are more assertive), the advance of technology, and lack of respect from the younger generation. The "Tough Guys" wood mock up of the 4449 Author: wattslocal After the big auction last month at Valley Center near Indio, does anyone have any idea of where the wooden 4449 will wind up? When the media mock them for their blunder and mistake them for younger men in masks, Archie decides to hijack the Gold Coast Flyer again as it makes its final southbound run. Used SP 4449 on the Eagle Mountain RR, in the Coachella Valley (Riverside County desert). Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone. A Mexican border patrol arrives to arrest them. One of 4449's career highlights occurred on October 17, 1954, when 4449 and sister 4447 pulled a special 10-car train for the Railway and Locomotive Historical Society from Los Angeles to Owenyo, California, and return. #4460 has the third nickname of "Forgotten Daylight" as it has not been restored and partnered with the #4449. The crash mockup for the 4449 end-of-track scene in the movie Tough Guys. sweet! It is all owned by touch stone films and was recorded for audio for an up-comming re-make ;) The wiki about locomotives all around the world that anybody can edit!. Instead, it was painted black and silver, thus giving it the nicknames "War Baby", "Black Daylight". This week’s run marks the first time No. With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith. Kenny Rogers sings the opening theme song "They Don't Make Them Like They Used To". This whistle would remain on the locomotive for the next 21 years. 4449 was then assigned to Southern Pacific's San Joaquin Valley line, occasionally pulling passenger trains such as the San Joaquin Daylight between Oakland and Bakersfield as well as fast freight and helper service. In 1986, 4449 went to Hollywood to appear in Tough Guys, and pulled business trains for the Southern Pacific. A portion of the Eagle Mountain Railroad was used in the filming of the movie. Later that same year, 4449 would later appear in the 1990 drama film Come See the Paradise. Tough Guys was their final collaboration. Message: 500 characters remaining. Harry, at age 72, is committed to a retirement community; despite his desire to work, he is informed he is past the mandatory retirement age of 70. Disney produced a film starring Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster along with SP 4449, so the locomotive took part of filming activities in Los Angeles and outlying areas. (April 25, 1958). 4449 almost crash into a car in "Tough Guys". SP 4449 stopping in Georgia in 1976 while pulling the American Freedom Train . [7], Then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan viewed this film at Camp David in September 1986.[8]. Janet Jackson sings the song, "Nasty," during Harry and Archie's lesson in Street Fighting with a local street gang. I own none of the content contained in this video. I’ve always wondered what the average person is thinking when they see something like this. In late 1989 or 1990, the 4449's SP&S whistle was set aside for the SP&S 700, and a Northern Pacific Hancock 3 chime was fitted. Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who have served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security. They crash through, burying the engine partially in the soil of Mexico a few feet across the border. Southern Pacific 4449, also known as the "Daylight", is the only surviving example of Southern Pacific Railroad's "GS-4" class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives and one of only two GS-class locomotives surviving, the other being GS-6 4460 at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri. First they try to rob a bank with members of their old gang, but all are now either crippled, invalids or dead. 4449 would later go on to pull several Southern Pacific - Rio Grande joint excursions, including "The Spirit of the West." Southern Pacific 4449 "Tough Guys" 1986 Film Movie Prop. Following a two-year hiatus needed to accommodate the locomotive's mandatory 15-year inspection and overhaul, SP 4449 returned to service on November 25, 2015. For the 1974 Blaxploitation film, see, Learn how and when to remove this template message, http://catalog.afi.com/Film/57499-TOUGH-GUYS, "Adolph Caesar : Fatal Heart Attack Fells Actor on Set", https://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/11/04-college-student-saves-movie-prop-daylight-replica, https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tough-guys, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/movies/screen-tough-guys-lancaster-and-douglas.html, http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tough-guys-1986, https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sreference/films-viewed-by-president-and-mrs-reagan, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tough_Guys&oldid=995414429, Articles lacking in-text citations from November 2013, Pages using infobox film with unknown empty parameters, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 20 December 2020, at 22:27. The locomotive engineer is played by Doyle L. McCormack, the man most responsible for the actual restoration of SP 4449. Watch Tough Guys. Richie, disguised as a SWAT officer, boards the train and starts it moving again. Directed by Jeff Kanew. The 1977 Bing Crosby recording of Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is featured. In late 1990 or early 1991, the SP 6 Chime on the fireman's side was stolen off the engine while sitting in the Brooklyn Roundhouse. Seller: Grahams I-15 Auctions. They decide to take the train to Mexico, but find, unfortunately, the tracks end a few feet from the border. Date of photo approximate. 4449 had another famous moment in 1989 when 4449 and Union Pacific 844 (another famous 4-8-4 steam engine) made a side-by-side entrance into the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1989 for the station's 50th anniversary celebrations. She attended the next year's NRHS Convention in San Jose with No. SP 4449 waiting at the Naval Air Station in Miramar, California, on January 15, 1976, when pulling the American Freedom Train . On March 24, 2009, it was announced that 4449 would attend Trainfestival 2009 in Owosso, Michigan from July 23–26 with an all-day excursion planned on the 23rd and 24th and a photo run-by planned for each trip. Harry throws Leon from the cab, at which the hitman vows to get them even if it takes another 30 years. "Third Locomotive in Oaks Collection". On May 18 and May 19, 2007, the engine made another appearance with UP 844 in the Pacific Northwest for the "Puget Sound Excursion", on BNSF Railway tracks from Tacoma to Everett, Washington, round-trip. 4449 had a notable moment in 1989 when it and another famed 4-8-4 Union Pacific 844 made a side-by-side entrance into Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1989 for the station's 50th anniversary celebrations. It was also used to pull the American Freedom Train exhibit during the Bicentennial, now based in Portland, Oregon. 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