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Passenger Trains > Late StarlightDate: 02/07/23 20:36 Late Starlight Author: jimB #11, Coast Starlight, with Pepsi Can P42 160 passing Santa Clara at 5:15 PM, around 8 hours late.
Jim B  Date: 02/07/23 21:05 Re: Late Starlight Author: IC_2024 Yes, Jim— that’s the 6-car “Coast Stoplight”… The end days of 98/99 looked better than this abysmal offering… Sad
Date: 02/07/23 22:16 Re: Late Starlight Author: atsf121 IC_2024 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, Jim— that’s the 6-car “Coast > Stoplight”… The end days of 98/99 looked > better than this abysmal offering… Sad It's crazy to think the 'end days' were that long ago now, I remember taking a picture of the Coast Starlight in Martinez with an SP crossbuck in the foreground (maybe Christmas '94 or '95) and wondering how both Amtrak & the SP were going to last. It is a bit surprising that Amtrak has managed to survive how many near death experiences of the past 50 years. Unfortunately, the SP didn't make it. Nathan |