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Starlight with "rocketship"

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SamReeves


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Registered: August 2003
Location: Pacific Grove. CA
Posts: 701
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Amtrak's "Coast Starlight" heads southbound between Soledad and King City, California on the Coast Line in April of 2002. The train has drawn an Amtrak-California F59PHI or "rocketship" as named by the train crews for its styling.
· Date: Sat July 4, 2009 · Views: 419 · Filesize: 173.6kb · Dimensions: 800 x 536 ·
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Rating: ********** 10.00
Keywords: Amtrak, F59PHI, Metz, California, Coast Line, Union Pacific, Starlight
Location: Metz, CA
Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive/Train: Amtrak #11
Date: 4/2002
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CPKirkie
Conductor

Registered: September 2002
Location: Washougal, WA
Posts: 194
Sun July 5, 2009 12:05am Rating: 10 

Interesting angle. The hills in the background scream "Nevada..."
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signmasters24
Family first than Trains,

Registered: March 2005
Location: Michigan
Posts: 92
Mon July 6, 2009 3:33am Rating: 10 



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Superchief3751
Engineer

Registered: June 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 459
Mon July 6, 2009 10:08pm Rating: 10 

I've always enjoyed the Starlight for its often unique motive power. I see another F59 tucked in behind there too. They must've been headed to LA for maintenance. When I rode the Starlight back in 2001, the consist was F59/P42/F40PH.

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Greg Elems
Engineer

Registered: August 2004
Location: Reno
Posts: 538
Tue July 7, 2009 2:28am Rating: 10 

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