A 2-hour late Coast Starlight blasts through Masten Ave as the sun peaks through the clouds.

Amtrak's "day one" heritage unit leads the southbound Coast Starlight through Jack London Square

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)

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)

BNSF 7161 leads the southbound Coast Starlight through Gilroy after an equipment failure the previous day in Seattle. The southernmost Caltrain terminal, still served by diesels to and from San Jo... (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)

Train 11 (Coast Starlight) departs Albany, OR with one of AMTRAK's "charger" locomotives near Queen Avenue.

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station, appropriately enough on Track 11, is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight. On this trip, Amtrak had difficulty producing two locomotives f... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station, appropriately enough on Track 11, is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight. On this trip, Amtrak had difficulty producing two locomotives f... (more)

Train 11, on Track 11, on March 11 Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak tra... (more)

Arriving at Los Angeles Union Station 1 hour 12 minutes behind schedule (because it arrived in San Luis Obispo 1 hour and 5 minutes late) is Amtrak train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight.... (more)

AMTK 11 rolls over the Steel Bridge after a station stop in Portland. The festive "Pepsi can" leads the way.

It was the Seventies. A time when one could pull into a service station and the attendant would fill your tank, check the air and oil, and wipe your windshield. And all for 39.9ΒΆ per gall... (more)