Southbound Amtrak No. 11 the Coast Starlight on the causeway across sloughs at the south end of San Francisco Bay. Next stop San Jose Diridon Station.

Banking towards the western portal of Tunnel 27, AMTK 503 leads the northbound Coast Starlight out of the San Fernando Valley on a clear morning.

Amtrak P32-8 No. 503 has the honors today of leading No.14 the Westbound Coast starlight into Santa Barbara.

Crossing over the 930-foot-long Stenner Creek trestle, AMTK 505 leads the southbound Coast Starlight off Cuesta Pass and toward its next station stop of San Luis Obispo.

With a unique set of power on the point this afternoon, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight races into Santa Margarita just a few miles from beginning its accent up Cuesta Pass.

Amtrak No. 11 the southbound Coast Starlight Detours off the Coast Route at Oakland and runs over Altamont pass, and down the Fresno Sub to Tehachapi and on to Los Angeles due to Tunnel work being... (more)

With the Coast Line closed between Chatsworth and Oxnard due to MOW work, Amtrak's Coast Starlight was detoured through Tehachapi Pass. Here, northbound train 14 passes a BNSF train at Sandcut, ne... (more)

Leaving Price Canyon behind, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight crosses Pismo Creek as it approaches Grover Beach.

The Coast Starlight passenger train runs between Los Angeles to Seattle along the Interstate-5 corridor. Here we see the northbound #14 crossing the Santiam River near Jefferson, Oregon. Jefferson... (more)

The Coast Starlight glides along Puget Sound at Steilacoom, south of Tacoma, WA on a sunny April day. Amtrak continues to use this route after their December 2017 derailment of a Cascades service ... (more)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight makes good time in south Seattle on BN's mainline to Portland as it glides through S curves just north of Black River Jct. in October 1974. At this time the train was pret... (more)

Amtrak 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, drops downgrade into South Serrano as it passes a pair of searchlight signals still standing guard. One of the first places on the Southern Pacific syste... (more)

A pair of SDP40Fs in the later styling head up the Coast Starlight as it prepares for departure from Seattle's King St. Station. The units are blocking the southbound main track, thus a BN transfe... (more)

I bet the passengers enjoying the view out of this Sightseer Lounge had no idea that plans to end passenger trains on this beautiful segment of the Coast Starlight were well underway at the time o... (more)

Climbing out of Soledad Canyon to the town of Acton, is No. 14 the northbound Coast Starlight. Bridge replacement on the Coast Route has the Starlight rerouted through Solidad canyon, the Mojave d... (more)