#2758
Southern Pacific 4460
🇺🇸 United States ·built by Lima Locomotive Works· from 1943· preserved American 4-8-4 locomotive (SP GS-6 class)
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SP 4460: Znns· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Southern Pacific 4460: Hellbus· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
Southern Pacific 4460 is the only surviving GS-6 class 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive, together with "GS-4" class Southern Pacific 4449, which is operational in excursion service. The GS-6 is a semi-streamlined 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotive. GS stands for "Golden State" or "General Service".
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 83 years ago, in 1943.
- Weighs about as much as 35 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 15 years (1943–1958).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1943
- in service from
- 1943
- retired
- 1958
- status
- retired
- number built
- 10
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- builders
- Lima Locomotive Works
- operators
- Southern Pacific Transportation Company
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 4-8-4
- weight
- 213 t
- nicknames
- War Baby, Black Daylight, The Forgotten Daylight, Blacklight
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7570269, Wikipedia: Southern Pacific 4460 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.