A Fun, Chatty and Snowy Coast Starlight Ride North

Happy Leap Day! (I unforchunately only have Amtrak tickets dated February 28 and March 1) Greetings from Portland and Hi-Hawthorne where I arrived almost an hour late due to signal trouble from last nights snow in the Southern Cascades. I am typing this listening to and Aussie and a Texan complaining about the grey 37º [...]

posted in Winter 2012 by Jeremiah Cox

Starting down the Coast and Surfliner, the Coast Starlight to Paso Robles and the city bus down to Grover Beach (plus missing the last bus to Guadalupe)

Greetings from San Luis Obispo! and the nice little youth hostel here! Todays was the time to head back down the coast to tackle the northern half of the Pacific Surfliner mostly by city bus. I debate taking an early bus to get to Paso Robles at 10:40 but decide to take the Coast Starlight [...]

posted in Winter 2012 by Jeremiah Cox

A Non-Detoured Coast Starlight Ride up to San Francisco (was scheduled via Tahachapi)

This Post I Pre-dated on February 22, 2012, the date I traveled: When Amtrak first announced the detour via Tahachapi I was quite disappointed, it would run northbound only during the first week of February not when I was out in California. Then it was extended to four more dates the second week and I [...]

posted in Winter 2012 by Jeremiah Cox

A Day on 4 Cascades trains working my way down to Portland

This Post I finally got around to posting on Wednesday October 19th from my iPhone as I rode the Empire Builder. I’ll add photos at some point. Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I arrived here on Saturday working my way down via Amtrak Cascades (and briefly the coast starlight), getting all four of the remote intermediate [...]

posted in Fall Foliage through Domes by Jeremiah Cox