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    New Orleans or Houston to Palm Springs

    It will take more time but it'd be a more comfortable trip & easier to arrange last-mile transportation if you took the Sunset Limited into Los Angeles and then the Pacific Surfliner to Fullerton and the connecting Amtrak bus to a downtown Palm Springs stop (PSS or PSP). Less issues than taking...
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    Nervous first-timer boarding in the middle of the night

    I'm aware other people might disagree, but I think you should be ready for plans to change. Based on speed & position data from asm.transitdocs.com, I believe this train has not stopped at this station most or all days since at least the start of April, even though it may have a recorded...
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    Eric & Pat’s May 2024 Trip Report: San Diego - Toledo - San Diego

    Just to clarify, those are connecting buses originating in Oakland. For the trip you mentioned, the bus leaves there at 10pm and gets to Santa Barbara at 6:30am. Train 770 starts that morning in Goleta, just 1 stop west, and at Santa Barbara picks up the passengers connecting from the bus. Two...
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    Booking a ticket from YOC to SFC

    As far as I can see, the Yosemite buses have been coded in very poorly for some city pairs this summer. I think it'd be easier to book the YARTS segment through YARTS. An example of a dumber one - if you try to book anywhere on the 120/395 route to San Francisco, you get these long transfers...
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    Status of Surfliner Service between Oceanside and Irvine

    Many effective things are costly... But I think an overpass on the beach would be rather unsightly, and the foundations would suffer the same issues with unstable ground.
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    California Zephyr discussion

    I believe the highest point along the route is the inside of Moffat Tunnel, just west of Denver, 9239 feet. The highest Amtrak station is nearby in Fraser, Colorado (8561 feet). The highest city of the ones you listed is indeed Denver.
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    Sunset Limited discussion

    Here's a more convincing example: Train 2 of June 11th passed by (or possibly departed) Palm Springs 12 minutes early last night. That'd never happen under ordinary circumstances.
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    Sunset Limited discussion

    Nice, a PSN for PSN. Looking at the "1222" at the bottom and comparing to other announcements, it seems this has been going on for half a year. That's really not nice to put people off in Ontario in the dead of night with no alternate transport...
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    Sunset Limited discussion

    Yeah, it usually gives an arrival & departure time, but sometimes it arrives & departs in the same minute, or doesn't record a departure time, and the location data doesn't show it slowing down or stopping. Maybe just an artifact of the recording apparatus, but it got me suspicious. Here's an...
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    Sunset Limited discussion

    I've been looking through recent data on asm.transitdocs.com for the Sunset Limited, and it seems to stop at Palm Springs only sporadically - most days, it looks like it rolls through without stopping, maybe on one of the non-platform tracks. Is Palm Springs treated as a de-facto flag stop...
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    Superliner trains' removal and restoration of cars (2022-2023)

    I saw the northbound Starlight at SLO today (14 of June 3rd) with only one sleeper, 32111, unless I "mis-saw" it. Can anyone corroborate?
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    Humboldt County, California by Amtrak

    Willbridge, I thoroughly enjoy all your stories recounting train travel "back then" - thanks for giving us so many! This prolific uploader of train photos dating back to the late 50s-60s has some of NWP's "Redwood" near the bottom of this page (Puta's UP and pre-Union Pacific Photos). Consider...
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    Refreshed Superliners in service

    I haven't been in there since pre-COVID, but I think the standard in the (before March) sleeper-only revamped diner was tablecloths, yeah?
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    Amtrak consists 2023

    On #14 of Jan. 3rd this year, I rode in a business class car (34512), booked as coach class. No BC car for BC class, and still only 2 coach class cars total. Maybe a temporary equipment shortage of some cause? #11 of Jan. 2nd, which I saw the same day, had a business class car and 2 coach cars...
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    Northbound Coast Starlight doesn't stop at Burbank Airport anymore

    This seems to have started this past Monday, the 21st, and all bookable tickets on the website are showing this continues. Also, from Van Nuys, all stops are 6 minutes earlier until arrival in Martinez, where it has a 12 minute stop, putting it back to its original schedule (this train did not...
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