With the 2000-foot (or higher) peaks of Pinnacles Nation Park rising in the distance, Amtrak train 11, the Seattle WA to Los Angeles CA Coast Starlight, skirts a large swath of farmland in ... (more)

Coast Starlight Los Angeles-Seattle at Gonzales.

A rarity in 2025... a Dash 8 leads the southbound Coast Starlight through fruit orchards and garlic fields at the ex-SP location of Carnadero, just south of Gilroy. This is where the Hollister Bra... (more)

On June 22, 2008 Amtrak detoured both Coast Starlights through Tehachapi in order to work around a bridge replacement project on the Coast Line. For the southbound train #11, I moved to the same h... (more)

Due to a tunnel collapse in Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains, the Los Angeles to Seattle Coast Starlight has been operating as a much shorter train, since the southern half of the route has been... (more)

Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)

ALC42 #305 leads Amtrak Train 11, The Coast Starlight, at their station stop in Emeryville.

Phase VII Amtrak's Coast Starlight route seems to be the home of Phase VII-painted locomotives as of late. Leading today's southbound Starlight into San Jose is P42DC #174 and ALC-42 #349 ... (more)

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

Just after sunrise, the northbound Coast Starlight rolls through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

The northbound Coast Starlight rolls along Grass Lake on a summer morning in 1995. The train is nearing the summit of Southern Pacific's crossing of the Southern Cascades. In about an hour, No. 14... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight prepares to stop at Mount Hebron, California on the Black Butte Subdivision. It will meet two opposing Southern Pacific freight trains there.

On a hot September morning, the equipment for this day's northbound train 14, Amtrak's Coast Starlight (Los Angeles to Seattle), has just backed into Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12, and will... (more)

AMTK 14 leads the northbound Coast Starlight along Klamath Lake, OR. Mt. Shasta in the background.

AMTK 14 leads the northbound Coast Starlight near Worden Falls, OR. Mt. Shasta in the background.