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
View from the ‘Coast Daylight’
By Angela Cotey | December 27, 2023
I got a picture from about the same location in July 1976 while in the diner on the Coast Starlight.