I'd appreciate the input of knowledgeable people please.....
I'm going to be taking the #14 Coastal Starlight from LAX northwards later this month with the aim of getting into Sacramento.
I've booked a business class seat on Monday 30 April (LAX-SAC), and I'm perfectly prepared to make it as a single 14 hour journey (I live in Oz and it's not unusual to travel for that time here).
But the SAC arrival time is scheduled as midnight, although monitoring the trains on https://asm.transitdocs.comshows delays beyond midnight are not uncommon.
Getting in at midnight doesn't much worry me either, I'm a big boy now.
But I'm wondering if there's a better way to make the journey, still using #14 for the first part from LAX, but breaking in a nice place, then catching another to SAC the next morning from whatever that place is. I'd really only be bunking down in that intermediate place rather than having a good look around there, because I'd want to be in Sacramento by early afternoon at the latest (1 May). It wouldn't be a San Francisco, for example, as I'd not do it justice.
The benefit would be to do more travelling by daylight (I calculate I'd lose the light somewhere past Oakland or so on the #14), stay in another place perhaps at lower cost than Sacramento (as well as check-in at a decent time), but still give me a decent day and night in Sacramento the next day before nicking off from there on the next leg, on 2 May.
I'm keen to keep to the #14 at least for its first bit as I'd like to have a squiz at your side of the Pacific, given I've seen quite a bit of my side of the Pacific.
I'm keen to have a gander at the Sacramento Railway Museum, for example.
If anyone would care to offer an idea or two, I'm all ears.
I'm going to be taking the #14 Coastal Starlight from LAX northwards later this month with the aim of getting into Sacramento.
I've booked a business class seat on Monday 30 April (LAX-SAC), and I'm perfectly prepared to make it as a single 14 hour journey (I live in Oz and it's not unusual to travel for that time here).
But the SAC arrival time is scheduled as midnight, although monitoring the trains on https://asm.transitdocs.comshows delays beyond midnight are not uncommon.
Getting in at midnight doesn't much worry me either, I'm a big boy now.
But I'm wondering if there's a better way to make the journey, still using #14 for the first part from LAX, but breaking in a nice place, then catching another to SAC the next morning from whatever that place is. I'd really only be bunking down in that intermediate place rather than having a good look around there, because I'd want to be in Sacramento by early afternoon at the latest (1 May). It wouldn't be a San Francisco, for example, as I'd not do it justice.
The benefit would be to do more travelling by daylight (I calculate I'd lose the light somewhere past Oakland or so on the #14), stay in another place perhaps at lower cost than Sacramento (as well as check-in at a decent time), but still give me a decent day and night in Sacramento the next day before nicking off from there on the next leg, on 2 May.
I'm keen to keep to the #14 at least for its first bit as I'd like to have a squiz at your side of the Pacific, given I've seen quite a bit of my side of the Pacific.
I'm keen to have a gander at the Sacramento Railway Museum, for example.
If anyone would care to offer an idea or two, I'm all ears.