Passenger Trains > Dagny Taggart Visits The Coast

The private car Dagny Taggart brought up the markers today on the Coast Starlight along the Santa Barbara coast.

In the first picture, train 11 crosses the trestle at Gaviota with the PV glistening n the afternoon sun.

In the second shot, the Starlight has a green signal at south Santa Barbara and the passengers in the Dagny Taggart are enjoying a breeze with the car's rear door open.

Dagny Taggart is the protagonist in the Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged."

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The Coast Starlight has trackage rights over Taggart Transcontinental?

/Mitch

Here's Dagny glistening in the sunset afterglow tonight at Seacliff.

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There's something vaguely amusing about a car named for an Ayn Rand protagonist using a publicly-funded operation for mobility.

Lovely shots!

Cheers,
Jack

yorknl Wrote:
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> There's something vaguely amusing about a car
> named for an Ayn Rand protagonist using a
> publicly-funded operation for mobility.

Defines the term cognitive dissonance!

Cheers,
Jack

yorknl Wrote:
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> There's something vaguely amusing about a car
> named for an Ayn Rand protagonist using a
> publicly-funded operation for mobility.

No doubt, an expensive proposition on the owner's
part - and paid in full.

/Mitch

This car seems to be the embodiment of an old quote that I am quite fond of:
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
-John Rogers

Cheers,
Nick

Looks to me that the AC may not have been working.

MWP in STL

I was thinking about something along those lines today while chasing a BNSF Z train across Nebraska.
If I ever own a private railcar it will have Taggart Transcontinental as the railroad name!
Nice shots and a beautiful car!

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Going through Napavine WA yesterday afternoon.

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That bridge made of Reardon metal?

That car was a staple here in Western NY for many years having been previously owned by a wealthy individual in this area. The car was on the end of an Amtrak-run excursion train I was on the staff of back in 1998 so I got to tour the car, and trust me, it was absolutely incredible inside! It had a dining table in it back then made out of marble! One thing I do see is that the letterboard no longer reads "West Texas & Buffalo Steamship & Railroad Company", but overall the car looks great! Thanks for posting these pix of a wonderful car!

Well there are two things we haven't seen here in a while...the PV Dagny Taggart, and Walstib's beautiful shots of the Coast Line. Thanks for posting!

Dave