thanks for this informative info. We hope to visit California by train soon, and the info on San Francisco will certainly help. Our first train trip out there - we'd like to just "wing it" and go with the flow of each city/stop on a Rail Pass. Two things we'd really like to do is see...
Spouse and myself want to take train trip from San Antonio to San Francisco, with following possible stops:
Los Angeles (2 days?)
San Luis Obispo or Paso Robles for wine tours
Oakland or S.F. Stations?
possible tour of Yosemite
return trip - S.F. to San Antonio.
Want a direct westward...