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Are there station codes for non-Amtrak stations that some Amtrak trains stop at? For example, Northridge and Downtown Burbank on the Pacific Surfliner, or L'Enfant Plaza on the Northeast Regional.

I didn't bother editing the original pdf because I couldn't get the icons to render right. So this is the current timetable effective Oct. 25, without station symbols or service symbols, and with worse arrows. Note that connections to/from the Surfliner (including the earlier 761 to 14) must be...

Sure that's fine. Couple more things I found - - 765 actually does have a connecting bus to the bay area, you just can't book a connection to it yet - 794 does have a connecting bus from the bay area - The 794 to 594 connection at LAX is now bookable, but they're still separate trains (unlike...

New Pacific Surfliner timetables effective October 25th. Amtrak hasn't published their's yet so I made my own by searching Amtrak's digital schedules tool. Several interesting things - Trains per day are 10 SAN-LAX, 4 LAX-GTA, 2 GTA-SLO (each 1 more than now), compared to 13, 5, 2 pre-COVID - A...

Here's my picture of Odell Lake. We slowed down for a freight train here so that was lucky too. January 16, 2021.

Because of the bridge work between SLO and SBA in August, an extra Surfliner is staying overnight at Goleta for morning trains 768 and 774. Does it have space to store 2 trains? I thought it only had 1 storage track.

Based on what I've heard, I suppose the tracks through Glenwood Canyon will open significantly earlier than I-70 will?

Imagine going from New York to almost Miami on a train in less than 10 hours! It takes at least 25 hours on Amtrak without delays...

Perhaps run it along the Arizona & California Railroad from Phoenix, AZ to Cadiz, CA. I think that line is still in service. It's probably too slow though because to go east the trains would first have to go north through Cajon Pass.

Amtrak 3 of Jan. 26 2018 P42DC 115 P42DC 9 Baggage 61047 Transition Sleeper 39018 Sleeper 32042 Diner 38000 Lounge 33015 Coach 34030 Coach-Baggage 31007 That's the consist of a January Southwest Chief I saw a couple years ago. So yes, it could have only 1 regular sleeper. (Finally! My consist...

I'll believe it when I see it. When's the last time a new route this long was made? Over the past 15-20 years, to my knowledge, there have only been short extensions near the NEC. I'm not holding my breath.

I rode the San Joaquin in late December, and the conductor on the single-level 710 at that time said the Comets would operate on a different train (train rotation?) 'in a few weeks', which is probably around now. So it is possible it'll be Comet cars.

There is occasionally a sightseer lounge car on a Surfliner set. I've ridden on it three times (1 time planned, 2 times unplanned but on the same trainset on the same day). The Pacific Surfliner Twitter used to announce it as "Train xxxx has no Wi-Fi today" meaning that the lounge car replaced...

How is the parking situation at the downtown Stockton station (this is the one on the Sacramento branch of the San Joaquin route, and where ACE stops)? I see two gated parking areas for the station, but how does the gate open to let cars in/out? I see that there's two parking lots right next to...

When I visited the Salesforce Transit Center in August when it opened, what I assumed to be an Amtrak and Greyhound waiting area on the west side of the structure (2nd floor) was under construction. One of the maps in the transit center showed Amtrak & Greyhound stopping on the 3rd floor bus bay...

Double Days usually starts in mid-September, but I haven't gotten an email or announcement about it yet. Is it still happening this year? (Edited out 50% sale that I thought was for tickets)

Suppose I'm riding the eastbound CZ, and I'm turning around at Galesburg to get on the westbound CZ. If the eastbound is so late that I'd miss my connection there, would it be possible to modify my return trip from a earlier station (say, somewhere in Iowa) to make the connection there...

The new Transbay Terminal just opened yesterday. Multiple local bus operators are already using the place. Online diagrams show Amtrak/Greyhound operating out of their own bus bays on the 3rd floor. On a nearby small space on the 2nd floor, there was a Greyhound waiting room (not open yet) and...

The southbound starlate would have be to very late to see Mt. Shasta in daylight. Probably at least 5-6 hours late with the early summer sunrise. The Sacramento River Valley & Lake Shasta south of Dunsmuir is also nice if the train is late.

Harpers Ferry is pretty charming as a place in general. I don't know how historical the station itself is though.