Private charter with five Milwaukee Road passenger coaches and a lone Amtrak unit cruises along the BNSF at Hager City.
Amtrak 6 with FP7 113 added between Oakland and Sparks, an SP requirement during adverse weather. Photo at Yuba Gap.
Amtrak's Coast Starlight, hours late as usual, makes its way over Salt Creek almost silently during a brief break in a snow storm. The deep snow made most of the line inaccessible, but I'm willing... (more)
Crossing the Santa Ynez River.
Amtrak FP7 113 (ex-SP 6449) brings a westbound San Joaquin from Bakersfield into Oakland, CA on August 26, 1975.
Northbound Coast Starlight #14 is about 1 hour late in departing Paso Robles on the central coast of CA, on UP's (former SP) coast route.
The Coast Starlight prepares to leave LAUPT, beginning it's trip north to Seatle.
A U50B is tucked into this Southern Pacific freight.
Station stop in SLO-town
Coasting down the Cuesta Grade
A blast from the past (at least for me) when I first began to take photos. Amtrak 113 South about to depart Portland.
Southbound Amtrak Train #11 (The Coast Starlight) slides underneath the bridge at CP Julian and into the San Jose Diridon Station.
The northbound Coast Starlight waiting for the Steel Bridge clearance...
