Coast Starlight

[winnie6052]

Can you take Amtrak from Seattle to LA on a through train without taking a bus service. I thought I heard or read somewhere that through train service was going to be possible.

Thanks.

 

[J-1 3235]

Can you take Amtrak from Seattle to LA on a through train without taking a bus service. I thought I heard or read somewhere that through train service was going to be possible.
Thanks.

Yes, train 11 from Seattle to Los Angeles--the return is train 14. Check at www.amtrak.com for schedules and fares.

Mike

 

[yarrow]

the route of the coast starlight is seattle to la. the only bussing is if you are heading north on the starlight and connecting to the empire builder which doesn't sound like it is the case for you. so no bus seattle to la or la to seattle barring unforeseen circumstances

 

[George Harris]

There must be something that somebody is missing here. Of course you can. Train is the Coast Starlight. Unless there is some sort of problem antiicpated or otherwise, this has been for years part of the Amtrak system, so I don't understand the "going to be possible" part. A couple of years ago it was very unreliable, but from all I have heard, it is now running to some reasonalbe approximation of schedule. Go to the Amtrak web site and you con find all you need to know about fares and schedule. For the schedule folder itself, www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct07/p11.pdf Scroll down to the second page as it opens with the page that is the cover and the various bus connections. Hang around here and you can get an idea of how close it normally runs to schedule.

Amtrak is talking about a "relaunch" sometime next year with refurbished and improved equipment. Maybe that is what you have heard about. However, this will not be a new service, but simply an upgrade - we hope - of a service that already exists.

(I ocnsider this term "relaunch" rediculous. What do they think this is? A boat that has been pulled out of the water and fixed up and renamed? That would be be a real relaunch. The sort of stuff being done here and in most other cases where the term is used is simply Marketingspeak nonsense. To comment on another marketingspeak item of nonsense: The term, "branding" When Eisner was talking about it at Disney, Roy Disney's response was to the effect that, "Branding is something you do to cattle.")

George

 

[had8ley]

There must be something that somebody is missing here. Of course you can. Train is the Coast Starlight. Unless there is some sort of problem antiicpated or otherwise, this has been for years part of the Amtrak system, so I don't understand the "going to be possible" part. A couple of years ago it was very unreliable, but from all I have heard, it is now running to some reasonalbe approximation of schedule. Go to the Amtrak web site and you con find all you need to know about fares and schedule. For the schedule folder itself, www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct07/p11.pdf Scroll down to the second page as it opens with the page that is the cover and the various bus connections. Hang around here and you can get an idea of how close it normally runs to schedule.
Amtrak is talking about a "relaunch" sometime next year with refurbished and improved equipment. Maybe that is what you have heard about. However, this will not be a new service, but simply an upgrade - we hope - of a service that already exists.

(I ocnsider this term "relaunch" rediculous. What do they think this is? A boat that has been pulled out of the water and fixed up and renamed? That would be be a real relaunch. The sort of stuff being done here and in most other cases where the term is used is simply Marketingspeak nonsense. To comment on another marketingspeak item of nonsense: The term, "branding" When Eisner was talking about it at Disney, Roy Disney's response was to the effect that, "Branding is something you do to cattle.")

George

George;

Maybe they're preparing us for the "re-launch" of the Sunset. That would be almost like raising the Titantic and the odds are probably much better that the Titantic sails again vs. the Sunset running once again to Florida...oh, I forgot we can't run a train without a station in Mobile...I guess the iceberg that got the Titantic was an unscheduled flag stop.