Guess what, Steve. I checked the TV listings, saw Superman came on at 3.30. Mother Nature called me at 3.25, so I stayed up five extra minutes to see for myself. My vote goes to the Sunset Limited---I am not that sure if agree with you on the locos being Daylights or not. I am actually not that knowlegable about locomotives. I also thought possibly it might be the Golden State, which ran SP until Tucumcari, N.M, then Rock Island to Chi.
The scenery was pure desert so that rules out the Daylight-- and I don't think the Golden State had that much pure unpainted stainless steel.The train on TV seemed to have a red stripe doesn't it? Above the windows?The Sunset had such a stripe. The whole scene is over so quickly it is hard to get the details).
Also I need to be given 40 lashes for mentioning the yellow City of Los Angeles and Challenger as being SP trains in LA. They were not---they were UP trains at that point.That was from my post yesterday.
I have a suggestion for you: check the credits sometime, see if it refers to the SP railroad(or possibly even the Rock Island, if the train is the Golden State after all).
Here is something else---I did not watch the show but I thnk they said something about Christopher Reeve. Guess what...I grew up on the version BEFORE it was played by Christopher Reeve...SO, it might have been a different train that I saw when I was a child, when someone else, also, was playing the role. In my vague mind I actually sort of think THAT train(way back then) was the Daylight, and that it went from the right of the screen to the left, opposite of what I saw this morning at 3.30..
Any thoughts, esp. after watching the credit lines, let us know.