Passenger Trains > Amtrak's Low-Water Starlight

With a new baggage car in the consist, the Coast Starlight rolls across Lake Shasta and toward Lakehead about noon yesterday.

The Starlight usually traverses this territory in the dark, but a grade-crossing collision near Salinas on Monday pushed the run through Shasta into daylight. The locomotive damaged in the collision was left in Salinas. A new second unit was added in Oakland.

The second shot shows the same bridge with a tunnel from the original line visible in the low-water condition.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/07/15 13:15 by walstib.

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Neat shot thanks for posting its really sad with the water that low, so from So Cal.

tc Wrote:

> Neat shot thanks for posting its really sad with
> the water that low, so from So Cal.

The lake level is nevertheless about 30 feet higher than the same date last year.