Amtrak's Coast Starlight, No. 11 from Seattle skirts Puget Sound at Steilacoom, WA striking a patriotic pose while the weather toys with our attempt to gain sunlit shots in January in the Pacific ... (more)
The southbound Coast Starlight flies south through the Salinas Valley at 70MPH as it nears Soledad, CA with some farm equipment next to the tracks.
With a brand new BNSF ET44C4 pinch hitting for an ailing P42, southbound Amtrak train #11 the Coast Starlight eases over the old deck girder bridge at Surf as it prepares to stop and line the swit... (more)
Everybodys surfin' on the starlate.
he coast starlight with an addition NPCU baggage cab car, is seen from atop Price Canyon.
Rolling off Cuesta Grade and to the station stop in San Luis Obispo, California, is Amtrak train #11, the eastbound Coast Starlight. The date is July 3rd, 1974, and SDP40Fs 556 and 551 are... (more)
Some nice standard cab power leads the southbound Starlight. Note two baggage cars.
The Coast Starlight
Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight rolls through Crossing Alley in Downtown Portland.
AMTK 11 had some UP power added to assist the Starlight down the rest of the Coastline.
The Southbound Starlight heads into Edna Valley.
Amtrak 77 heads up the southbound Coast Starlight as it goes through an S-curve in the Willamette Valley.
Southbound Coast Starlight
The sharp point of this P42 is striking south, approaching SLO
The phase I heritage painted locomotive moves the southbound Starlight into Portland Union Station. This pair of locomotives brought me into Portland the day before.
