June 20, 2010 Riding the Rails All Day Lynn and Jamie took the Surfliner out of San Luis Obispo first thing in the morning, rode it to Santa Barbara, got on the Overland Trail to ride back to SLO and back to Santa Barbara, and then took the late Surfliner back to SLO that night. All day just riding trains! Here are photos from throughout the day, taken either from the train or of the train, generally. Along Price Canyon Road. Heading up onto the Nipomo Mesa. Guadalupe. SLC-2 on Vandenberg AFB. Where the Delta IIs are launched. Surf/Lompoc stop. Vandenberg's harbor. Our host on the Overland Trail, Bill Hatrick. Lunch in SLO. The Conoco-Philips refinery on the Mesa produces a fair amount of sulfur. SLC-4, was home of the Titan IV (now flown out). Potential new home for SpaceX. Gaviota trestle from the Overland Trail. Our 775 Surfliner northbound met the Starlight southbound at Santa Barbara. Gaviota trestle. Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC-6). Where the shuttle would have launched from and now houses the Boeing EELV program (Delta IV) for the west coast. Looking down the 3-mile runway on Vandenberg. Grand Avenue in Grover Beach.