The northbound Amtrak Crescent speeds through the small town of Lula under the signals "Belton." With the train running 30+ minutes late, they are doing all they can to make up any lost time.
Amtrak # 11's engineer guides their heavily overpowered train up towards the diverging approach at North Jack London.
Passing a Norfolk Southern double stack train, Amtrak 201 blasts through the tiny town of Camden, Missouri. Camden marks the beginning of paired running with the BNSF and NS. The paired running, r... (more)
Amtrak's Coast Starlight detours through California's Central Valley as it descends down the famous Tehachapi Pass after going around the horseshoe curve at Caliente.
The Coast Starlight passes through the agricultural Edna Valley shortly after departing San Luis Obispo on its southward journey.
Amtrak #3 passes along the red cliffs about 30 minutes until sunset 9/10/11. The train has just crested the Continental Divide at Continental Divde,NM (RR Station name Gonzales).
The Floridian was still a pretty big train in late 1973, as shown here in October of that year, with three Es and a train that stretches well past the far end of Montgomery's train shed waiting to... (more)
Amtrak's detouring Coast Starlight rolls through Ravenna, CA on Metrolink's Valley Sub. The Starlight is detouring due to track work on the trains normal coast route.
Almost down the pass, the detoured northbound Coast Starlight rounds one of the curves at Caliente as it passes a stopped UP worked train on a clear Sunday afternoon.
Due to track work on the Coast Subdivision, Amtrak rerouted their northbound Coast Starlight through the Tehachapi Mountains. AMTK 201 and a Dash 8 numbered 503 leads today's Starlight over the br... (more)
Northbound Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 passes through the small farming community of Somis on UP's Santa Barbara Sub.
Southbound Coast Starlight #11 passes through the Santa Margarita crossover and is about to relase its track warrant that its had since Salinas.
The 2008 New River Train gets ready to make it's stop at St. Albans.
The northbound Coast Starlight passes a quaint trackside trailer park in the community of Glenwood.
UP workers groom the area for fresh signals as the Coast Starlight creeps up the Eugene Depot siding beneath a soon to perish SP signal bridge.
