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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

Awaking to Mount Shasta and Through the Southern Cascades to a Wine Tasting and On Time Arrival in Portland

At 2:11am I wake up briefly south of Chico, I’ve a manged the sleep through the service stop at Sac! I see something that looks line white plastic along the line. At 5:42 I wake up in misty mountains, I look at my phone and realize Shasta is on the other side of the train. […]

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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

Day 1 on the Coast Starlight Pacific Parlour Car: Luxury Up the California Coast With Amtrak Provided Wine and Champaign

I get to LA and find the TRAX Lounge getting set up. I head over and don’t find wifi. I head back and sit on the ground outside Starbucks, the busy terminal moving all around me to upload some more blog posts. Then I go for a walk and return to TRAX around 9:00. The […]

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Winter 2012

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 37ยบ […]

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Winter 2012

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 […]

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Winter 2012

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 […]

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Fall Foliage through Domes

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 […]