1. In RT3, the default 4-8-4 Northern is modelled after real life SP GS series Daylights. the tender seems to be fictional because SP rarely uses coal-firing, every GS class locomotives run on No.6 fuel oil, so who else in the US also uses the coal-firing 4-8-4 with the same casings as the Daylights?
its stats appears to be 'mountain king' though, which fits the 4-8-4s of the eastcoast RR instead :P
or can you say otherwise? that the RT3 4-8-4 Northern was modelled after a streamliner owned by someone else but not Southern Pacific?
2. if one said that the 4-8-4 is not a good freight hauler, so what else does he/she compares the 4-8-4 with? except the Mallets.
3. Does the GS5 (??) "Black Daylight" (built under wartime restrictions to not be a streamliner) dual purpose as Sherrick said?
![Image](http://www.techtourguide.com/kurtdvich/SteamBShot.jpg)
^ The default 4-8-4 Northern from RT3, it looks alot like Daylight but the 'owner' appears to be an RR based on the Midwest and Eastcoast not SP
the paintscheme appears to be ones of modern day Caltrain
![Image](http://www.toytrains1.com/images/trains/daylight-1.jpg)
^ Southern Pacific GS class 4-8-4 Daylight, one of the last steams bought by SP, before GM salesman approached SP execs to convince them to buy F-unit instead.... there are 'ugly' diesel daylights too! hood unit diesels painted in Daylight scheme hauling the passenger train with the same name. mew!