Southern Pacific Class GS-2

The Southern Pacific GS-2 ("GS" meaning for "Golden State" or "General Service").

This type of semi-streamlined 4-8-4 Northern steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1937 for the Southern Pacific. They were assigned road numbers 4410 through 4415.

The GS-2s were streamlined and designed for high-speed passenger service.

When they operated they were the first to receive the red and orange "Daylight" paint scheme and were used for the streamlined debut of Southern Pacific's premier passenger train, the Coast Daylight in 1937.

During World War II, they were painted black and silver and were used to transport troops.

There are no existing GS-2s today.

Locomotive Roster

Locomotive Numbers	Image	Date Built	Date Retired	Date Scrapped
No. 4410		January 1, 1937	All of them were retired in 1955.	All of them were scrapped in 1958.
No. 4411		January 1937
No. 4412		January 1937
No. 4413		January 1937
No. 4414		January 1937
No. 4415		January 26, 1937

Trivia

• The GS-2 had a very different appearance than that of the GS-1.
• The Southern Pacific Railroad built 6 of these locomotives.
• They featured a silver smokebox with a cone-shaped single headlight casing, skyline casing on the top of the boiler, skirting on the sides, and an air horn.
• They retained the teardrop classification lights and whistles.
• The following year they were replaced by the improved GS-3 engines.

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