This is the once a day Amtrak Coast Starlight. It is leaving right on schedule from the Eugene station at 1715 on December 28.
Amtrak Engine 301 is a Siemens ALC-42 Charger that was painted in a special "Day One" heritage livery to commemorate Amtrak's 50th anniversary.
I see 301 regularly as it is one of the main engines for the Coast Starlight route that runs from Seattle to Los Angeles (~1,400 miles). There is one southbound a day and one northbound. I see the Northbound every day around 1500. The southbound is the only daily and it leaves Eugene at 1715.
I rode this train a few years ago when I had to go back to San Francisco to pick up a motorcycle and then ride it back to Eugene. It was not a great ride because the entire ride is overnight to San Jose and it arrives the next morning around 0700. The entire ride is in the dark! So looking out the windows in the view car all you see was indeed...Starlight.
Notes: I took the little drone out to get this video for my Brother Jim...who likes trains.
...the small building the train passes is the Eugene Station. Further back to the right...with all the bright white lights...is the Lane county jail. I imagine the inmates looking out the window seeing trains leaving constantly...if they could just get over the barbed wire fences....
...also, the original video is shot in 4k and looks amazing...cinema quality like many films. But there is a limit to the size of files you can upload to this site...so I had to reduce the 3gb file down to 75mb and 480p. Big quality videos mean big file sizes and no sites like that....