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The Coast Starlight.

Climbing the Cuesta Grade north of San Luis Obispo.

The <i>Coast Starlight</i>.
Until Amtrak began in 1971, no one train ran the length of the West coast. The Coast Starlight began running under that name in the 1980s.

 

Amtrak photo, Ann Owens collection.