23Aug11: The Coast Starlight: Day 2 (Rail Day 7)

The trip through the Coastal Range of mountains was beautiful, though any sign of wildlife still escaped us.  As we approached San Francisco we saw the mothball fleet of Navy ships at anchor. Mostly supply ships, but it did look like there was one Iowa-class battleship there. I looked it up later and it was not only an Iowa-class battleship, it was the USS Iowa, BB61. We got to Emeryville, California at little after 8:30 in the morning, about twenty minutes behind schedule.