Amtrak on the Modoc Line? Just barely. In summer 2003 UP was doing tunnel work in the Oregon Cascades. The Coast Starlights were terminated and turned at Eugene and Klamath Falls, with a bus bridg... (more)

Running more than three hours late following the self-implosition of the AMTK 510 back in Burbank, Amtrak 14 hustles across the Gaviota trestle in the late afternoon light with fresh power as it h... (more)

The Coast Startlight has just traversed the Chats Tunnels and is now passing through the big curve at Santa Sue. Note the matching second unit and baggage car with phase III paint.

Amtrak 44 - A Reminder of Better Days

After several days of typical Seattle mist and gloom, the sun burned through on January 23, 2017. While cold, it was sunny as Amtrak's Coast... (more)

Because of a derailment in the Cascades, the northbound Coast Starlight was going to terminate at Klamath Falls. On a cold morning before any buses arrived, Amtrak decided to wye the train at Texu... (more)

For the second day in a row the Coast Starlight is about 13 hours late as it makes a rare daylight run through downtown Burbank on its way to nearby Los Angeles.

Westbound Amtrak No. 14 the Coast Starlight rolls along the Gaviota Coast between El Capitan and Refugio State Parks, west of Santa Barbara Ca.

Catching the morning light between Tunnels 26 and 27 on its way through the rock outcrops of Santa Susana Pass, Amtrak 11, running 13 hours late for the second day in a row, drifts downgrade into ... (more)

Amtrak P42DC No.9 and Amtrak P32-8 No.509 lead eastbound No.11, the Coast Starlight, across the causeway thru the Elkhorn Slough Sanctuary.

A Roger Puta Photograph

Amtrak No. 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, highballs along the Carpenteria Bluffs just after sunset.

Living up to its namesake, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight, Train No. 14, crosses over the 811-foot long trestle at Gaviota as it breaks away from Highway 101 and heads toward the Hollister Ra... (more)

Rumor has it that Metrolink has pulled all the AC4400CW leasers from their trainsets in anticipation of immediate return to BNSF. While I cannot personally confirm that, there was a line of eight ... (more)

In the comforting shade of a tree on a hot day, a little boy and his mom watch Amtrak’s Coast Starlight arrive at Salem, Oregon, on September 25, 2016.

Amtrak 198 rolls south along the Puget Sound at Steilacoom on the point of the Coast Starlight.