Amtrak's Coast Starlight departs King Street Station behind E8 333, F7B 154 and E8 340. The now demolished King Dome was under construction at the time adjacent to the station leads. All three u... (more)
On a crystal clear spring day (finally), #11 rolls over the Chamber's Creek Lift bridge a few minutes behind schedule. The snow covered Olympic mountains provide a dramatic backdrop to the otherw... (more)
Amtrak #11 reaches full speed south of Mojave as it heads toward Los Angeles.
Amtrak #11 waits at Caliente for Amtrak #14. Both trains were rerouted from the UP Coast Line due to a bridge replacement, allowing the first scheduled, revenue passenger meet on the line since... (more)
Coast Starlight with P32 (AMTK 510) as the second unit.
"Coast Starlight" passing through Santa Clara.
A pair of young railfans give the "Coast Starlight" the signal to do the choo-choo, which it happily obliged. P32 AMTK 503 is the second unit.
Crossing the north end of Elkhorn Slough
A five plus hour late "Coast Starlight" speeds past historic Agnew Depot. See if you can find the rainbow in the stormy clouds.
This is at or near "Metz", a few miles south of Soledad, CA in the Salinas Valley, just off of old US-101. Amtrak 11 (the Coast Starlight) has just blasted out of a strangely out-of-place tunnel o... (more)
Interesting mix of power on the Coast Starlight: P32-F59-P42-P32.
Superliner Coach #34133 sporting the words "For the Twenty" on the roof. Supposedly it was a part of a slogan for the Clinton re-election train.
CalTrain engine "Atherton" leads the "Coast Starlight" south to LA.
