View from the ‘Coast Daylight’

View from the ‘Coast Daylight’

By Angela Cotey | December 27, 2023

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


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

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