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)

Amtrak's Coast Starlight makes good time in south Seattle on BN's mainline to Portland as it glides through S curves just north of Black River Jct. in October 1974. At this time the train was pret... (more)

Water for My Horses

It is Independence Day Eve (is that a thing?) 1974 and Amtrak's southbound (eastbound, in Southern Pacific vernacular) Coast Starlight, train #11, makes it... (more)

Rolling off Cuesta Grade and to the station stop in San Luis Obispo, California, is Amtrak train #11, the eastbound Coast Starlight. The date is July 3rd, 1974, and SDP40Fs 556 and 551 are... (more)