Southern Pacific SDP45s 3207 and 3204 bring southbound (railroad eastbound) Amtrak #11 Coast Starlight to a stop at San Luis Obispo, California on April 18, 1973.

A Cotton Belt "Tunnel Motor" leads Amtrak's southbound "Coast Starlight" into San Luis Obispo, California.

UP 2941 is on the south end of a 4-unit helper set at SLO.

PV Pony Express brought up the rear of the Coast Starlight, shown here at San Luis Obispo. This was the Pony's first trip in the Canadian Pacific scheme. I was the lucky one who got to ride in the... (more)

Southern Pacific Daylight 4-8-4 4449, with SP SD40E 7342 as a helper, works up Cuesta Grade out of San Luis Obispo, California. This train, dubbed the World's Fair Daylight, is retu... (more)

Amtrak F59PHI number 461 is being refuled and cleaned while it overnights in San Luis Obispo, CA. Early in the morning it will push Amtrak's Surfliner train number 775 south, departing SLO around... (more)

Amtrak 463 has been sitting in SLO for a few days, and done nothing. It was still in town a few days after the photo was taken too. Nikon E995

A freight heads south (railroad east) out of San Luis Obispo on its way to Los Angeles, CA.

A single SD45T-2 brings a short train down Cuesta Grade and through the fields on the campus of Cal Poly University on the Golden State's central coast.

An eastbound Southern Pacific sugar beet train, with Cotton Belt SD45T-2 9268 on the point, has just begun to depart San Luis Obispo, on California's scenic central coast, following a crew change.... (more)

SD40-2R 3566 and SD60M 2410 are serving helper duty on one of the first freights though SLO since the wash outs in Santa Barbara. Nikon E995

The SLO helpers at rest, at least for the moment. Nikon E995

SP SD40E 7342 (ex-SD40 8470), wearing its second experimental orange and red scheme (see also photo 97163), sits on the (now gone) turntable at San Luis Obispo as it awaits the arrival of steam en... (more)