SP lives on the Coastline

Amtrak 172 leads the southbound Coast Starlight train down Cuesta Pass and across the Stenner Creek Trestle. This train was now just minutes away from it's station stop at San Luis Obispo, Califor... (more)

SP's Coastal mail Train 154 is "eastbound" (southbound) at Narlon en route L.A. on Oct. 19, 1964. A single rider coach is on the rear.

The Pacific Northwest Invades California! A rare lashup of Amtrak, Cascade, and Sounder units departs San Luis Obispo and heads north on the UP Coast Subdivision.

Amtrak P42 number 135 shoves on the rear of train 774, the southbound morning Surfliner from San Luis Obispo. This train departed SLO a few minutes prior, and is now leaving the Edna Valley and h... (more)

The fog had burned off and the sun is now shining on the California Coast as the southbound oil cans sit idle waiting for a new crew in San Luis Obispo, California. The 9,680 tons of crude oil tra... (more)

Eighteen months after being swallowed by UP, some things had not changed on the former SP. Just north of San Luis Obispo a brace of old SP road dogs brings a train down Cuesta grade, the heat from... (more)

The Coast Starlight passes through the agricultural Edna Valley shortly after departing San Luis Obispo on its southward journey.

Amtrak 172 leads an ontime Coast Starlight train into San Luis Obispo, CA on a very sunny winter day.

After waiting for the late southbound Coast Starlight train, Amtrak 191 and the rest of the northbound Coast Starlight head out of San Luis Obispo, CA and into the sunset along California's golden... (more)

During the lay over between Train 799 LA to San Luis Obispo in the morning and return Train 798 in the afternoon. This borrowed Cascade NPCU sure isn't receiving any TLC!

A late Amtrak 14 lead by two Dash-8's, Amtrak 510 and Amtrak 509, makes its way through Chorro on its northbound climb up Cuesta Grade.

Amtrak 116 leaves the campus of Cal Poly (SLO) behind as it charges up the Cuesta Grade with a late Coast Starlight train. Soon this train will be twisting and turning on top of the large hills ju... (more)

The San Luis Obispo Helpers watch the sun set as they wait for their next assignment which wouldn't be until the fallowing night. They would then be called out to help the southbound Oil Cans over... (more)