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.
VANCOUVER WA May 4 2011 — Amtrak P42DC 134 slows for a station stop with the southbound Coast Starlight. General electric built the unit (s/n 52814) in December 2000. My photo.
On Labor Day 1995, an Amtrak California F59 leads the northbound Coast Starlight through Northern California. The locomotive was headed for Tacoma to be repainted.
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.
AMTK 320 leads the southbound Coast Starlight at Klamath Falls, OR.
The Coast Starlight arrives from the coach yard
An Amtrak Siemens ALC42 leading the northbound Coast Starlight at track speed through the small town of Macdoel with Mt Shasta clear in the background.
The Coast Starlight arrives in Oakland
Amtrak 14 heads north behind a new Charger at Worden, OR.
