Cuesta Pass
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Cuesta Pass or La Cuesta Pass, colloquially referred to as simply the grade, is a low mountain pass in San Luis Obispo County on California's Central Coast. It crosses the southern Santa Lucia Range a
Cuesta Pass from Reservoir Canyon south of the pass, with U.S. 101 visible in the upper left
Southbound Coast Starlight at Horseshoe Curve, on the lower Cuesta Grade
Coast Line (California)
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The Coast Line is a railway line between Burbank, California and the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly along the Pacific Coast. It is the shortest rail route between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Though
Cuesta Pass
…roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) to the south, with Atascadero, Paso Robles, and the Salinas Valley to the north. It is traversed by U.S. Route 101 and the Coast Line of the Union Pacific Railroad, and is better known for the long slope up to the pass from San Luis Obispo, in the canyon of San Luis Obispo Creek, which is redundantly named the…
Southbound Coast Daylight, at Auzerais Street in San Jose in April 1970
Looking south at the junction of the Coast Subdivision (left) and Peninsula Corridor (right), Santa Clara (2022)
A Caltrain train (left) passes Union Pacific and Helm Leasing Company engines at South San Francisco, April 2014