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Passenger Trains > Dawn on the StarlightDate: 10/18/02 19:28 Dawn on the Starlight Author: photobob The Coast Starlight at Martinez at dawn a few years back. Im sure the new depot is just great but the memorys of the old depot will never be replaced.
Date: 10/19/02 04:07 Re: Dawn on the Starlight Author: Goatboat Nice shot, Bob. Reminds me of a trip on the Starlight when I was at "UC Eugene" in 1978. We got on the train, and the load was about 80% thirsty college types. The line for drinks in the ex-SP dome went all the way through the dome to the first coach ahead!
The guy in line ahead of us asked the bartender if he could get a pitcher of drinks in a bucket so he didn\'t have to wait in line. A while later near Cascade Summit, he guy was sick as a dog, hanging out of the dutch door for relief. Ouch! - gb - Date: 10/19/02 11:13 Re: Dawn on the Starlight Author: samreeves Is that really your picture Morris, or did you start playing with the rose filter again??
Date: 10/21/02 01:15 Re: Dawn on the Starlight Author: Evan_Werkema Last Saturday, a bunch of Bay Area fans got
together for a train watching and BS session on the platform in front of the old Martinez depot. We figured we\'d be more or less out of the way down there, since the old depot is more or less beyond the ends of the new depot\'s platforms. I don\'t know if it\'s just because we were there, or that people really didn\'t know there was a new station in town, but we had to redirect quite a few folks down to the new station when they showed up at the old one and found the doors locked. Martinez is still a great train-watching spot - in addition to the zillions of passenger trains, UP shoehorned a surprising number of freights through, including an AGBMI with shiny new UP 5123 and 5118 on the point, and an MRVSJ with three patched SP tunnel motors. Say what you will about the modern scene, but somehow I doubt we\'ll look back at the pictures we shot that day and remark, "it was all crap then." |