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Vintage Rail Cars on the
Amtrak Coast Starlight


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On Saturday, January 31, 2009, the Amtrak Coast Starlight was pulling a pair of vintage streamliner cars: the Southern Pacific Overland Trail and the Boston and Maine Salisbury Beach.

Santa Barbara Amtrak Station Santa Barbara Amtrak Station

The Santa Barbara Train Depot was reconstructed in 2000.

Panorama size: 1191 megapixels (41205 x 28910 pixels)
Input images: 225 (15 columns by 15 rows)
Field of view: 207.3 degrees wide by 145.5 degrees high (top=90.0, bottom=-55.5)

Santa Barbara Train Depot, March 7, 2009

Coast Starlight The Coast Starlight pulling into the station.

Salisbury Beach The Boston and Maine Salisbury Beach is is a Pullman sleeper with six roomettes, four bedrooms, and six sections. It was built in 1954.

Link to the Salisbury Beach web site.

Overland Trail The Southern Pacific Overland Trail Club Lounge Railway Car was built in 1949.

Link to the Overland Trail web site.

Salisbury Beach Salisbury Beach

Overland Trail Overland Trail

The Coast Starlight pulls out of the Santa Barbara Station.

Coast Starlight The Coast Starlight crosses the trestle at Gaviota.

Coast Starlight The Coast Starlight

Overland Trail Overland Trail

Salisbury Beach Salisbury Beach

Salisbury Beach Conductor Bill Hatrick of the Overland Trail stands at the door of the Salisbury Beach.

Bill Hattrick These two vintage rail cars will pass through the area again on May 16 at the beginning of a tour of the Pacific Northwest.

Salisbury Beach Next stop, San Luis Obispo.

On Thursday, June 30, 2005, the Amtrak Coast Starlight was pulling two vintage rail cars, the Southern Pacific Overland Trail and the Pennsylvania Colonial Crafts.

The Coast Starlight rolling through Goleta.

The Southern Pacific Overland Trail 1949 Club Lounge Railway Car.

The Coast Starlight on the Gaviota Coast.

The Southern Pacific Overland Trail and Pennsylvania Colonial Crafts.

The Pennsylvania Colonial Crafts 1949 Parlor Car is also available for charter.

Link to the Colonial Crafts web site.

The Pennsylvania Colonial Crafts

If you operate a vintage rail car that will be passing through Goleta, please contact me, so that I can get some pictures of your car to display in my museum.




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