Planning some California rail trips

My wife is planning to fly to Switzerland with the kids next March and she wants to fly from Los Angeles (so she can take the Nonstop flight with Swiss). I’ll take her down there and thus, I will have two Bay Area to Los Angeles trips on the train to do. I’m figuring I can do one trip on the Coast Starlight (although I’ve done that before - years ago) and the second trip on the San Joaquin route. I’ll also have some time in L.A. to potentially do a Pacific Surfliner round trip and maybe some Metrolink trips.

Since I’ve already done the San Jose to Seattle segment of the Coast Starlight on an earlier occasion and we just recently did San Jose to Sacramento on the Capitols, I’ll have almost the whole Amtrak California rail network covered after that.

Imagine this - California is much larger than Switzerland, but it is much easier to reach a stage where you have traveled all the available passenger rail routes in the “country” (I still can’t say that about Switzerland, although I’ve done a lot of them already. But it’s the little trains here and there that get you).

Posted in: Uncategorized | November 30, 2004 8:12 am