Dash-8BWH beings the ascent up Cuesta Grade

Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight, led today by the AMTK 510, cools its heels at San Luis Obispo as passengers enjoy a chance to stretch their legs and admire the unusual leader on their train t... (more)

On July 25th, a special set of cars were on the rear of Amtrak's Coast Starlight seen here winding upgrade past the north end of Chorro Siding on Union Pacific's Cuesta Pass. The observation car i... (more)

UP 1414 begins to bank into the curve at S. SLO

Word that AMTK 510 was still on the point of the Coast Starlight prompted a friend and I to make the drive from Los Angeles up to San Louis Obispo's Cuesta Pass to shoot the SP Searchlights at Cho... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 796 backs out of its storage track in San Luis Obispo, on California’s Central Coast, and it will soon load its first passengers for the trip to San Diego. As th... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7614 leads a freight train passing through San Luis Obispo, on California’s scenic Central Coast. The power for this train includes, besides the GP40-2, SD45s and Tunnel... (more)

The 1948-built "Silver Solarium" cools its brake shoes on the rear of the northbound Coast Starlight as the famed, west coast long-distance passenger train calls on San Luis Obispo. The ... (more)

Amtrak Coast Starlight departs San Luis Obispo California on time during it's trip down to Los Angeles.

Running a couple of minutes early, the Southbound Coast Starlight rounds the curve around collapsed and abandoned Tunnel 10 on Cuesta in San Luis Obispo.

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" by Southern Pacific's timetable) Coast Starlight is just about at the station in San Luis Obispo, California, on July 2, 1974. Amtrak... (more)

Passing Starlights. The daily ritual, at least when both trains are on time, takes place in front of the beautifully resorted Southern Pacific freight house here in San Luis Obispo as Amtra... (more)

The last rays of sunlight shine over the hills of San Luis Obispo as a fresh crew takes control of this Council Bluffs to Oakland passenger deadhead. The train will meet seven other passenger cars... (more)

Amtrak No. 120 leads No. 11, the southbound Coast Starlight into the San luis Obispo SP station as Amtrak No. 14 the northbound Coast Starlight departs.

Light power for potentially one of the last oilcans hangs out in SLO after being brought up from Guadalupe. The "oilcans" have been running the Coastline from San Ardo to Dolores with th... (more)