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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day View from the ‘Coast Daylight’

View from the ‘Coast Daylight’

By Angela Cotey | December 27, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Southern Pacific Railway Coast Daylight at Cuesta Grade

Two passengers on Southern Pacific’s Coast Daylight watch with fascination as a 2-10-2 helper and 4-8-4 road engine lift their train up Cuesta Grade out of San Luis Obispo in about 1949.
Linn H. Westcott photo

One thought on “View from the ‘Coast Daylight’”

Erik Magnuson says:

December 29, 2023 at 5:36 pm

I got a picture from about the same location in July 1976 while in the diner on the Coast Starlight.

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