On a fast section of double-track southbound at Ferrier Road, Train 11 was sporting some fancy-pants power today, the recently unveiled Veterans' unit #42 with #156 bloody nose Amtrak Heritage. T... (more)

Heritage unit 156, sporting Amtraks "phase I" paint approches San Luis Obispo to meet the northbound starlight before continuing it's trip to LAUPT. The bloody nose almost gives this train an Espe... (more)

The San Joaquin Starlight returns.... The eastbound (southbound) Coast Starlight glides into Caliente behind P42 #113. The detour of AMT 11 (12) was brought about by track work on the northern en... (more)

With most of it's work behind it, Amtrak's Coast Starlight (more of a "San Joaquin Starlight" on this day) #11 glides downgrade at Marcel.

The view out onto Jalama Beach, California, from the observation car on Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight.

Northbound Coast Starlight train 14 is right on time as it nears Klamath Falls.

A detoured Amtrak Coast Starlight train descends the UP Canyon Subdivision as it rounds the bend near James. The train will continue to loose elevation until it hits the valley floor where it will... (more)

Mount Shasta and Shastina tower over the Butte Valley as Amtrak's Coast Starlight blasts northward at 79mph on a spectacular summer morning. The searchlights and code line are living on bo... (more)

At 6:48am the Coast Starlight was running on schedule, after cresting the 5105' summit at Grass Lake. They will make OS at K-Falls within about one hour owing to some fast track into Dorris.

Unsung heroes
While passengers move about the train in the relatively roomier upper level of an Amtrak Superliner train, the kitchen staff faces cooking hot meals and washing dishes in ... (more)

Amtrak in the Feather River Canyon! Amtrak 11 was making just another ordinary trip south through Oregon when the news came in; a Union Pacific manifest train had derailed just north of Dun... (more)

Amtrak Across the Keddie Wye! Due to a derailment along UP's Shasta Route (just north of Dunsmuir), Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight was forced to detour via the Feather River Canyon and... (more)

Two F40s and two P40s hustle the 12 cars of Amtrak's Coast Starlight No. 14 northward near Narlon, Calif. on Oct. 8, 1996. The sixth car in the consist is the wine tasting and lounge for passeng... (more)

Running right on its advertised schedule, southbound Amtrak train #11 the Coast Starlight crosses the Santa Ynez river bridge at Surf located between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo along the Ca... (more)

Once again, Amtrak phase IV heritage engine #184 is assigned to the Coast Starlight's locomotive pool. Along with this, the Coast Sub has livened up quite a bit due to the recent derailments on Te... (more)