The northbound Coast Starlight train 14 traverses the truss bridge in Westfir, Oregon. Built in 1910, the bridge allows trains to travel over the North Fork of the Willamette River. Westfir once w... (more)

High in the Cascade Mountains on Union Pacific’s Cascade Subdivision, the Amtrak Coast Starlight train 14 gingerly snakes its way down the 1.7% grade at 20 mph through ‘the slide’ at Fields.... (more)

Northbound Coast Starlight #14 is detouring over the ex SP Saugus Line and over the Tehachapi's due to bridge replacement work on the Coast Line. Amtrak #92 leads its train past the East switch at... (more)

Southbound Coast Starlight as seen from atop Bishop Peak pulls in to San Luis Obispo a few minutes late

Amtrak no. 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, pauses at the station in Albany, Oregon, at twilight on Veteran's Day 2009, running one hour and ten minutes late.

Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 at Elkhorn Bay on time

On a rainy autumn day the Amtrak Coast Starlight train 14 rolls north through the truss bridge at Fall Creek Junction. Constructed in 1951, the seven-span bridge traverses the Willamette River. ... (more)

Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight made ketchup out of a tomato truck that strayed onto an unprotected crossing in the Salinas Valley. The trailer was split in two, but thankfully the driver and ... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight is travelling along Puget Sound on its journey south from Seattle. In the foreground is the Chambers Bay golf course, a links style course designed by Robert Trent Jones I... (more)

The detouring southbound Coast Starlight and a lone railfan pacing the train are shown in this shot just north of Ansel siding.

Amtrak 253/204 and #14 Coast Starlight glide through fresh morning snow in the Cascade Mountains.

A sense of scale! Nearly 46 miles distant from the Starlight's path, Mt. Rainier dominates the scene. The train is merely a Z scale model in comparison. Anderson Island provided this uncommon ... (more)

Northbound Amtrak train #14 makes good time on its central valley detour as it passes through Warren, situated roughly halfway between Mojave and Cameron at the eastern foot of the Tehachapi mount... (more)

The detoured Coast Starlight has just passed through the Soledad Canyon road under crossing in the last rays of sun light

Morning fog begins to slowly break up, exposing the Seattle Skyline, as the Coast Starlight backs into Union Station to begin boarding passengers.