A rare sighting of "helpers" return to the Cuesta Grade on Valentines Day 2021! Since the oilcans stopped running, SLO no longer has a helper set or crew based out of the station. Two mo... (more)

A not too common occurrence takes place as all three tracks in slo are filled with equipment. Tracks 2&3 are filled with MOW equipment, one being the NB rock train used to fill the washout north o... (more)

Empty baretables snake down the Cuesta Grade.

A work train climbs the horseshoe curve of the Cuesta Grade. The South Chorro siding is still protected by US&S searchlight signals.

Trains and rain are rare in San Luis Obispo, CA. Today, a NB work train shuffles cars around the SLO Yard, which at this point has been turned into a lake.

The stopover in San Luis Obispo at the train station was not planned on our trip on Highway No. 1. We were all the more pleased to be able to watch the meeting of two passenger trains. Amtrak No. ... (more)

AMTK 130 leading the southbound Coast Starlight over the old Espee Stenner Creek Trestle

Grade this photo. Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome/sleeper 313 (WEBX 801044) and former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman obs/diner/sleeper "Babbling ... (more)

Dash-8BWH beings the ascent up Cuesta Grade

Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight, led today by the AMTK 510, cools its heels at San Luis Obispo as passengers enjoy a chance to stretch their legs and admire the unusual leader on their train t... (more)

On July 25th, a special set of cars were on the rear of Amtrak's Coast Starlight seen here winding upgrade past the north end of Chorro Siding on Union Pacific's Cuesta Pass. The observation car i... (more)

UP 1414 begins to bank into the curve at S. SLO

Word that AMTK 510 was still on the point of the Coast Starlight prompted a friend and I to make the drive from Los Angeles up to San Louis Obispo's Cuesta Pass to shoot the SP Searchlights at Cho... (more)

Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 796 backs out of its storage track in San Luis Obispo, on California’s Central Coast, and it will soon load its first passengers for the trip to San Diego. As the ... (more)

Southern Pacific GP40-2 7614 leads a freight train passing through San Luis Obispo, on California’s scenic Central Coast. The power for this train includes, besides the GP40-2, SD45s and Tunnel M... (more)