Amtrak Coast Starlight - 34 HOURS Up the West Coast!
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- Hello and welcome to Los Angeles Union Station! Today we’re climbing the west coast of the United States, riding 34 hours from here to Seattle on board Amtrak’s Coast Starlight!
Trip Information
Train: Amtrak Coast Starlight 14
Locomotives: Siemens ALC-42s 306 and 320
Consist: 3 Superliner Sleepers, 1 Diner, 1 Observation Lounge, 2 Coach cars, and 1 Viewliner Baggage
Departure Time: 9:51am
Arrival Time: 7:51pm +1 Day
Journey Time: 34 hr 0 min
Ticket Price: $1019.00 (2 people)
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Chapters
0:00 Hello and Welcome to Los Angeles Union Station!
0:14 Coast Starlight Route Map
1:06 The Incredible LA Union Station
2:03 LA's Metropolitan Lounge
3:26 Boarding (Almost) Begins
4:10 Coast Starlight 14 Backs Onto Track 10
4:38 Climbing Aboard and Our Home for the Next 34 Hours!
5:02 Departure
5:17 A HUGE Thank You for 10K!
5:37 Rear Window Views of LA
6:08 Slowing for a Passing Surfliner
6:38 Lunch Time! The First of 5 Meals on the Starlight
7:00 Coastal Dining Views
7:28 Amtrak's Traditional Dining
7:54 Costal California
8:25 Roomette Tour!
11:27 Subscribe! And a HUGE Thank You to my Patrons and Members!
11:52 We Don't Need Sun to Enjoy the Views
12:23 Inland We Go
12:36 Vandenberg Space Force Base and SpaceX
12:56 Finally a Sunny Day!
13:13 San Luis Obispo: Our First Fresh Air Stop
13:45 Amtrak's NEW ALC-42 Locomotives!
14:54 Onward Towards San Jose
15:05 Cuesta Pass: Horseshoe Curves Galore
17:07 Back up to Speed
17:15 Bedroom Tour: Double the Space of Our Roomette
19:24 Enjoying the Sightseer Lounge
20:04 Gilroy: The Southern End of Caltrain's Territory
20:46 Dinner Time!
21:25 Catenary Wires! CalTrain's Electrification
21:55 CalTrain's NEW Stadler EMUs!
22:22 Departing San Jose Alongside a CalTrain Service
22:35 First Course: Caprese Skewers
22:52 CalTrain's Maintenance Facility
23:13 Sunset Over the San Francisco Bay
23:21 The Main Course: Amtrak's Signature Flat Iron Steak
24:01 Dessert! An INCREIDBLE Chocolate Mouse
25:01 Arrival in Oakland: Fresh Air Stop Number 2
25:46 Door Stuck! Door Stuck! Please! I Beg You!
26:11 Shower Time!
26:55 Time For Bed.
27:27 Day Two and Mount Shasta
28:34 A Fresh Pot of Coffee
28:52 More of Mount Shasta
29:24 Breakfast Time
30:10 Finally Into Oregon
30:30 Klamath Falls: The First Fresh Air Stop of Day 2
31:18 Upper Klamath Lake
31:54 Lunch Time on Day 2
32:18 A Side of Cascade Mountains (And dessert too!)
32:46 Descending the Mountains
33:25 Lookout Point Lake
33:43 Eugene, OR
34:01 Passing Freight and Cascades Trains
34:28 Making up Time
34:40 Arriving in Portland
35:14 Portland's Metropolitan Lounge
35:58 Back on Board!
36:03 A Waiting Cascades Service
36:14 On Towards Seattle
36:29 Amtrak's Talgo Trainsets
37:23 Dinner on Day 2: Great Food With Great Views
38:25 Sounder's Commuter Rail Territory
38:35 Tacoma Station
38:49 We're the ONLY Sleeper Passengers?
39:10 Seattle's Boeing Field
39:24 The Starlight Pulls into Seattle's King Street Station
39:48 Disembarking Into Seattle
40:01 If You Made it This Far, Thanks! You're Awesome!
40:24 Next Week: Metrolink's Arrow: California's Newest Commuter Service
40:40 Subscribe! And another HUGE Thank You to my Patrons and Members!
41:07 Thanks for Watching!
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Great review … very comprehensive! Also appreciate your meal reviews, which I think a lot of train vloggers (myself included) struggle with beyond the basics. You’re lucky to get a look at Portland Station … when I caught the Coast Starlight it was many hours late, so we didn’t arrive until dusk and had a truncated stop. Cheers!
Thanks for the kind words! I was surprised we had any time at all in Portland given that we were about 90 minutes late by that point, but I guess Amtrak decided it wasn't worth trying to make up the time this late into the journey. We should do a collab if I ever make it down under! I'd love to have some local insight into Australia's and New Zealand's rail networks.
@@LonestarTrips Sounds good. Cheers!
@@FromtheWindowSeatyes I agree a lot of Train vloggers(myself also) either don't film the food sections or just don't put effort into it and they need to do better but Lonestar he does everything right and is definitely giving me inspiration for my trip reports
Why amtrack way behind of European trains especially Spain. I think Spain train talco is better than amtrack trains😢
The Amtrak lounge is quite small, but quiet. That could be because finding it is something of an achievement 🤔
🤣That's definitely what it seemed like!
🤣That’s definitely what it seemed like
I've taken the Starlight often but have never located the lounge
Union Station in Los Angeles is a destination in itself. The architecture, garden, food, surroundings, a some great people watching.
The Coast Starlight probably has my favourite range of scenery. You get the beautiful coast of California and the beautiful nature of the Pacific Northwest. Great trip review!
It's fantastic. I wish it wasn't so gray as we were going past the coast, but the mountain views later more than made up for it.
Would this be good for stargazing from the cabs?
I was born and raised in Los Angeles. My Dad had his business at 9th and Broadway. My Dad traveled extensively by train ever since he started working at 14. Union Station was part of our lives. Union Station still looks very good. There are parts of Los Anges I miss.
I've traveled twice in the sleeper cars on the Amtrak Coast Starlight... from (530) to (805), both round trips.
Very affordable relative to other ways of travel... considering price paid, all accomodations are included, and time spent NOT stressing in traffic.
Friendly and helpful staff.
Comfortable, clean, and quiet.
Delicious food can be eaten with other riders in the dining car, and a few times I opted to select room service so the attendant delivered the meal to my door... I made sure to give her a nice tip.
Beautiful views.
It's awesome.
I recently took this train up to SEA and I got to say that despite not being able to sleep very much (in coach), i really loved the scenery as we traveled through northern California into Oregon / Washington.
yeah man personally I would not sit in coach more than like five hours. Longer than that and I get a room on the train. 🙂 Only time I have ever road an amtrak long distance was coast starlight seattle to san jose as my ride home from the Navy...they paid for a room on the train, it was great. If I go back it would definitely be in one of the rooms. 🙂 I do ride the short distance Capitol Corridor and San Juaquins a lot more often. 🙂
Lonestar's longest report yet, and it certainly surpasses all expectations despite the high standards this channel is well known for. Been here since the beginning and it's amazing to see the channel continue to grow and improve! Excellent work once again.
Thanks a lot! It means the world to me to hear that you enjoy the content I make, no matter how long it is. Thanks for being here from the start (I think you were my 400th sub!), your continued support has been amazing.
Over the years, this train has more than earned its nickname of "Coast StarLATE," usually for reasons it cannot control. Still a great ride. NOTE: A transfer in Eugene OR to the Amtrak Cascades will take you all the way to Vancouver BC, another beautiful run.
After hearing about Amtrak's Coast Starlight ALC-42 #300 being involved in a derailment due to crashing into a truck on the tracks, it's good to see that the trains other ALC-42's #306 and #320 are still keeping the line moving forward.
314 and 322 are also a common sight on the starlight, so there’s plenty of ALCs going around.
@@LonestarTrips Yeah, I notice that when yall passed them!!
Too dangerous to deep fry fries on a moving train. Hence the chips.
While i understand this, why not cook them in an oven/air fryer? Healthier too
I am impressed by Lonestar’s knowledge and research in the different Amtrak locomotives, rail coaches and their variants and the amenities therein. Very good attention to detail.
This account is very accurate. I've taken this train many times between EMY and PDX and he captures the experience on the run up very well. (On the way down, Sacramento is the long stop to take on water and take out the trash for an extended fresh air break about 06:00-06:30.)
I want down from Seattle years ago and they still had the Pacific Parlor Car which gave Sleeper Passengers their own lounge car and even had a movie theater downstairs. It is sad it was discontinued because it was really nice
The proper long distance experience!! Flexible dining has got to go! Those pacific views are stunning. I hope to take the Southwest Chief or California Zephyr next year.
Those two are on my to-do list! They'll have to wait for now, as I've got a lot of stuff planned, but it'll happen eventually.
We did this in May during a 6 week rail tour of the US and I think the Coast Starlight was my favourite journey (and yes, we did take the California Zephyr too!). Our train was half an hour late arriving into Union Station and they then spent half an hour fixing a headlight. The only delay on the journey was because SpaceX were launching from Vandenberg although we didn't see the launch itself. We had one Siemens loco and one P42.
The thought of being on a train that long is more than I can handle, but I’m glad you enjoyed!
kcgirl I rode this train once as my "ride home from the Navy" in 2003....Seattle to San Jose....if you have a room on the train (as seen in the video) it's actually enjoyable! You get three meals a day, cooked by a chef. The Coast Starlight is one of I think five or six Amtrak trains that have an actual chef cooking the meal aboard the train. You get breakfast, lunch, and a three course dinner (appetizer, entree, desert), all included in the fare, no tipping necessary (unless you want to....I certainly didn't feel any pressure to tip....remember these guys are under federal charter, they're not paid the 2.50/hr + tip thing, they are paid a good wage). You not only have a nice private room where you can lay down and go to sleep, but also a shower, and then you have the sightseeing lounge, with the chairs facing out the window. 🙂
I wouldn't sit in coach for more than five hours, personally. But if I had a room, I would do a full long distance amtrak journey. 🙂
But, these long distances, you definitely can't do it for a weekend trip up to Seattle from San Jose (which is why most people would go there, like let's say you're seeing a concert series or something)...for that, you would just fly. MUCH faster. 🙂 But if you have the time and the inclination, and an extra four days of vacation (two days to get there, two days to get back) then it's more like taking a cruise.
It's like going across the Atlantic....you can do it in seven hours on a jet from New York to London, or you do it in a week on Holland America or Costa etc. 🙂
great video. this route is on my bucket list. been on a small part of this route, the scenery is terrific. amtrak does a great job.
I’ve ridden the Coast Starlight many times in the last 20 years, as coach passenger and in both kinds of sleeper compartments. I remember coming back from Eugene, Oregon one time when we were delayed 6 hours due to the derailment of a freight train on the Feather River, and another (very sad) delay due to the injury of some kids playing around the Richmond, CA train yard. Those destructive fires that burned just north of Mt. Shasta meant sleeping on a bus, as the tracks went right thru the fires! After all those negative experiences (including a loudly snoring coach attendant), I still look forward to traveling on the Coast Starlight for the views and the great crews.
The Coast Starlight is one of my bucket list trains.
That rear train car view sold me on taking that train. Thanks.
Beautiful video. Thank you. My very first, and most lasting impression of the Coast Starlight is how amazingly quiet it was leaving Seattle; it was silent, and it stayed very quiet as we blasted down the coast. The whole time, I was able to easily carry on a normal conversation with my companion. BTW, at 28.52, you expose one of my pet peeves about coffee service. The serving lever has two positions; you are shown using it in the "DUMP" position. If you do not forcible push the lever up, it will continue to spew hot coffee coffee until the tank is empty. This is quite dangerous. Your attendant should have turned the lever 180 degrees into the "SERVE" position. In the "SERVE" position, the spring-loaded lever will return to normal without being pushed up. Many coffee pots have a red "Do Not Serve" label on the "DUMP" side. Whenever I encounter a coffee pot in the "DUMP" mode, I always fix it. I am always hopeful that someday, somewhere, someone will avoid getting burned. Rant aside, I loved my Coast Starlight journey and I definitely want to do it again, northbound next time.
Excellent point, Chris. Thanks for the helpful comment; you are absolutely correct about the coffee machine settings.
Loved it,did this trip in 2018,best scenery seeing the entire West Coast from SoCal into the Great Northwest,nothing else compares!
Congrats on both 10K & getting to ride the Coast Starlight. My trip on the Coast Starlight sadly got canceled but I got to my destination on the equally reliable San Joaquins train system.
Just met your channel for the first time today...thoroughly enjoyed my first trip with you! Quality experience. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.....i have some catching up to do....
Amazing 👏. My first time watching your vlogs. I look forward to the next one. Thank you so much ❤
I just booked a trip on the lake shore limited connecting to the Zephyr connecting to this train from EMY-LAX. Insanely excited, this video is only helping.
Thanks for sharing a very nice video of the whole west coast of the US. I did it but divided in segments and staying in Los Angeles then Sacramento, Portland and finally staying with my cousin in Seattle Washington.
My journey on the Starlight in the last sleeper was brought back in your most excellent video. The climbing ride through the Questa Pass was thrilling as we rounded the horseshoe curves. Thanks so much for the memories.
Lonestar - Congrats!! very nice video. Very informative. I will be taking the same route in August so your content is very helpful. Happy Rails!!!
I'm glad you have a video on the Coast Starlight as it's my third favorite route behind only the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited.
Thank you for a wonderfully comprehensible video. Such amazing scenery with Mount Shasta being the absolute standout!
Me Want Chocolate Moose !
Thanks for sharing the beautiful video 👍👍
Of course! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome review. This is definitely on my bucket list.
An excellent presentation! I've seen a few different videos of this Amtrak route, and yours captured the views better than any I can recall. Mt. Shasta in daylight was an amazing sight that I've never seen in a Starlight trip video, what a serendipitous upside to your train's delay! And I have to say that I don't normally care for rear view shots; I think most people choose the wrong view, and/or linger too long on it. Yours were spot on. Glad to see the meals were (generally) up to the usual good-to-excellent quality of Amtrak traditional dining; about the only truly disappointing experience I've had was watery grits for breakfast on the Texas Eagle! Thanks for a most enjoyable vicarious train journey!
The George Pullman car! I rode in that sleeper back in 2010 on the City of New Orleans.
I always love your videos and always look forward to them as you are my favorite CZcamsr. As per usual incredible video.
Traveling by Amtrak is so relaxing… I was lucky to be able to ride the Coastal Starlight and Empire Builder. Going from east to west is such a great experience! Btw, congrats on 10k! 100k is coming your way!
Better than flying!
I appreciate your videos. I'm watching this one a second time. We are getting excited about our October trip. Starting in Nashville. A Greyhound to Memphis. Then Amtrak, Memphis to Chicago, Chicago to California, and then Portland, Oregon. After a few days in Oregon, we will be going back to Memphis. We can't wait to see if we get the newer sleeper cars. We have a roomette for most of the trip.
This video was very well narrated. I’ve made this trip many times through the years. It’s been a favorite.
Thanks! I'll have to see how the Coast Starlight compares to some of the other journeys I've got planned later this month, but it'll definitely take something spectacular to take the top spot away from the Starlight.
I've been subscribed for a few weeks now thanks for some Amtrak trip inspiration. Greetings from the UK
Of course! Always happy to inspire future travelers!
Awesome ride on Amtrak Coast Starlight #14. I have dying to do the Amtrak Coast Starlight route roundtrip between Seattle & Los Angeles for YEARS ever since I first became aware of the Amtrak route. I can't wait to do a roundtrip soon. Keep up the amazing work.
I highly recommend it! Though you may want to consider buying tickets on two different routes instead of doing a round trip on one. Yes, the starlight is a fantastic ride, but the empire builder is right there. And with flights being relatively cheap, it'd be pretty easy to get back to LA or Seattle from Chicago if you wanted. Of course, do whatever your heart desires, but just my two cents.
@@LonestarTrips I've done the Amtrak Empire Builder route roundtrip between Chicago & Seattle/Portland. I went to Portland from Chicago and to Chicago from Seattle and I am down to do that again. If your interested in doing the Amtrak Empire Builder route I highly recommend you go west and if you were to ask me which section, do you prefer and why, my answer will easily be the Portland section because I think the scenery along the Amtrak Empire Builder route is outstanding but i think the Portland section overtakes the Seattle Section when we talk about scenery.
Great video, it could have Been longer without any complaints from me! Thanks for the ride 🚄
I agree with you on the ALC42s, as they are my favorite Amtrak locomotives of all time
I agree with you on the alc42s, as they are my favorite Amtrak locomotives of all time
@@kl6361why did you just copy me???
@@adventuresofamtrakcascades301 why did you just copy me???
@@kl6361 ?
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This is really Incredible!
Damn you see the promising future on the behind of staff. My goodness I need to run a trip on that route.
Caltrain is actually doing a public tour of the new EMUs on July 29th. I'll be going and I'm very excited!
Fascinating!!
Lovely trip… I like to fly from Southern California to Seattle and take the light rail to King Street Station. I catch the Cascades south to Centralia where I stay at McMenamins Olympic Club hotel which is literally across the street from the station. McMenamins makes some good beer so I’ll have beer flights to be able to try quite a few. After a couple of days in Centralia I catch the Coast Starlight back to Burbank Airport which is my starting point. I wish I was doing that today. 😊
This was a very thorough review. I'm going to ride this before years end...
I'm glad you thought so, and safe travels!
I loved the video!!! Very informative! Great videography too! Perfect narration too! Thank you!
I’m so glad you enjoyed!
Yes, I agree - 'great narration!'
Well done video. I have ridden all the AMTRAK rail west of St. Louis / Chicago done in 5 weekend to weekend trips from 2001 through 2013 out of St. Louis making connections in K.C. and Chicago at times. I rode the Coast Starlight as part of two separate trips first Emeryville (Bay area) to L.A.. and later Emeryville to Seattle. Like you mentioned, being late gave you a much closer look of Mount Shasta. I believe you did miss though a very scenic pass around Puget Sound seeing all the water and islands that I think was not shown in this video because AMTRAK re-re-routed near Seattle but I could be wrong. I really liked your food reviews. I just subscribed.
I made this very trip in 2002. Although it wasn't half bad by the time I got to Seattle we were 14 hours behind. So it was a bittersweet train trip. My one mistake was traveling coach. I should have got a room. In an airline seat for almost 48 hours undesirable. One day I'll get another chance to do this and he'll certainly be much better because I'll have a room
I liked it and laughed with the stuck door 😂 so funny. Cindy
enjoyed the ride sure do miss the Pacific but waves were nice, loved the train ride also tks
June 28th 320 was leading 14 northbound when it hit a water truck at a grade crossing. Its been stored in UP Oxnard yard along with the rest of the consist sense.
Great report. Thanks. I just took a bullet train from Paris to Avignon, France, in complete luxury in under 4 hours. The cost for 1st class was $79 per person. It's a shame we cannot do that in the U.S.
Thanks for a wonderful video. I ride this train every other year from LA to Portland. It really is a gorgeous route! You did a wonderful job of capturing it and also capturing those desserts! Aren't they awesome? 👍
Looks awesome to arrive in Seattle during the daytime. I took that trip in December and we arrived 6 hours late 😢
so glad I found your channel, We want to take a train ride and this helps immensely. Thank You.😊
Great video. I truly enjoyed it👍
Very nice
Omg! It's too bad you missed the time when the Pacific Parlor cars were still on this train! Those were special, sleeper-passengers-only observation cars that were so freaking Cool!
I've made two round trips from LA to Seattle, the second one in a sleeper when the ex-SF Pacific Parlor cars were still in use. It was so nice to sit there instead of in the cramped cubbyhole of our sleeper roomette, with all the soft drinks/tea/coffee and newspapers free and with wine tasting the first afternoon and champagne tasting the next day. I'm taking 14 again soon, but in Coach this next time; there's no way I'm going to sit in a tiny roomette for 34 hours!
You see a lot of commuter rail (Sounder, CalTrain, Metrolink) and other Amtrak services (Pacific Surfliner, Cascades, San Joaquin, Capital Corridor, various others) along this route, as well as amazing scenery! Great documentary!
It’s a great combination of landscape and railways!
@@LonestarTrips Sure is! Definitely going on my bucket list!
@@mxderate 😊
@mxderate....I noticed that! (Former Metrolink commuter here from the mid 90's) I took this train back in Fall 1997 from LAUS to Salinas. Now that I'm in Idaho, would love to fly out to LAX, catch the Pacific Coast Starlighter and take it all the way to Seattle this time, then fly home from Seattle to Salt Lake City, UT (I'm on the south end of state in Twin Falls, ID). think that would make an interesting vacation!
@@diannehortonpong1388 Yeah the Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner are both great trains!
I was glad for getting help in getting to the lounge (in LA)…
Good to see the Los Angeles Metropolitan Lounge has had a few upgrades in the 5 years since I took the Coast Starlight. At the time, it was coffee, filtered water, and Rold Gold pretzels. Also they took people via red cap cart out the back door to the track... I exited and walked. The line up waiting for that cart would make a Southwest pre-boarding area look like amateur hour.
Great video as always, thank you! That chocolate cake looked so yummy, mmmmmmm!
You're welcome ☺The chocolate cake was delicious. Probably my favorite part of any meal on the ride.
Good job!
I don’t mind the long video at all because I love train travel! I’m also pleasantly surprised there was an Amtrak Cascade with talgo sets as I thought those were all retired, but I guess they still have one!
I don’t mind the long video at all because i love train travel! I’m also pleasantly surprised there was an Amtrak cascade with talco sets a i thought those were all retired, but I guess they still have one!
Beautiful trip report!
Thank you!
Dang, I don't think a train travel video has ever left me feeling so hungry! Gotta do something about that now. Good job on getting to 10K; here's to 100K next and maybe you can be back in CA, taking a SpaceX journey then and we can see how they drizzle sauces over your deserts in 0 gravity. Congrats.
Haha thanks for always coming back bro. I’ve got some ideas for if we hit 100k, but we gotta get there first.
@@LonestarTripsface reveal??!!🤨🤔🤨🤔
@@josephj.6478 Maybe...😉
Nice trip. I really appreciate the work and info u put into your vids, Vs some channels I've seen with very little and lil to no information. thanks
I do my best to make my videos as comprehensive and informative as possible, while still being entertaining, so it's always great to hear that I really hit the mark.
Thanks for the video, was just on the other direction, and now finally able to see the winding forrest at daylight, it was very cool to watch in darkness from the bed with a full moon, but wanted to see what it looked like. Though I did have a small storage space in my roomette, not that it was big enough for anything but meh.. Bedding was wide and big enough for my tall and fat arse, and honestly showers were great, everything there and plenty of room.
OK, I need to take the amtrack coast starlight express train from los Angeles to Seattle Washington
A good report, we’ll narrated.
Very well done video. Sets all apprehension aside while considering traveling on a train in route to an Akaskan cruise. Many thanks✌
The powers trip tip, is gold.
fantastic video. very well done! i watched from second one to your good bye. im planning a model railroad with an Amtrak train so watching this was informative. i do think i prefer the previous Genesis engines or F40s. the new ones look good but i think lack protection for the crew in front end accidents with cars or other trains. maybe they dont necessarily want to design specifically for front end accident protection but i think i would.
well done with the video!
Thank you!
thanks for s haring youir journey on the coast starlight took th is train from san jose to seatle one time in coach
Small pronunciation- San Luis is pronounced San LOOIS obispo and Camarillo is camareeo
camariyo
No Pacific parlor? The last time we were in the King Street station they were just starting the remodel. Good video!
No pacific parlor? The last time we were in the king street station they were just starting the remodel good video!
great station Los Angeles
EXCELENTE VIDEO
Very nice! I plan to take the southbound train in a Roomette from Portland to LA and definitely looks like it's worth the insane price tag. I'm taking the train to move from the PNW to SoCal, so much better than driving for 2 days straight.
The Roomette is *chill.*
Glad I took it in May 2021. The whole experience was a pleasant surprise, compared to the prospective total nightmare of attempting to fly…
I want that drive though. I live on the East Coast and it’s totally different.
Having been a train gypsy since I was 16, I find that those unexpected delays usually result in something I wouldn't have seen otherwise...ergo Mt Shasta....had you been on time it might still have been dark or you were still asleep. My longest delay was 8 hours in the middle of nowhere New Mexico...but we got to see the sun rise over the desert
There’s always a silver lining to situations like that! 😊
Recall the past when the Starlight ran from San Diego to Seattle...Oh well....those were the glory days of the Starlight when they used to have parlor cars showing movies on board.
not the amtrak but i got to take the metrolink from union station when i was younger, that was one of the coolest things id ever seen when i was younger. the station was mind blowing to me (and i just liked going on a train lol)
Great review and commentary , really enjoyed it . I’ve done this route a couple times but never have I seen the rooms in such horrible condition . From your video I could see the dirt / filth in the rooms , Amtrak should be ashamed …
Those two Sadler train sets are STILL sitting there, lol. I operate the VTA light rail (the light rail train at 21:45) and go by there everyday on the way to Winchester.
Nice video 😊
as a dutchie im glad that you call it a stroopwafel and not a snickerdoodle, cause it definitely isnt that
I think this is much more of a train review than a trip up the west coast review.
I took this going back to Chicago. I took the southwest chief going to Anaheim and took this train back. I transferred off at klamath falls to catch the empire builder by shuttle bus. Thanks to the shuttle bus driver we made the connection due coaststarlight being majorly late due to frieght train
i was fortunate to take the Starlight while it still had the Pacific Palour Cars. I wish they bring back something like the slumber coaches for single passengers.
So much great footage presented with good editing and pacing! It felt shorter than the actual length so glad we got to see it all. I think this has now become the definitive video on the Coast Starlight for me. Also I agree with you on the 6 & 7 paint schemes.
Yeah i had a hard time finding the lounge room in union Station at los Angeles. Found it after being in the Station over a hour
21:27 That will also be what the new California High-Speed Rail trains will use in the near future, sharing the line with Caltrain going from San Francisco to Gilroy, and all the way south to Los Angeles Union Station, sharing those same Electric catenary wires with Caltrain.
lol those lighter colored Green Beans are literally called "Wax Beans". That's why they were "waxy"... because they're supposed to be, that's just how they grow, as in there's no actual wax added to them that's just their natural texture. I personally love them but I can understand how it might throw someone off if they've never tried them before.
Haha that explains it then. The menu only listed them as “Baby green beans,” so it certainly caught me off guard.
@@LonestarTrips Baby green beans is definitely not even remotely accurate for that side, but at the same time I'm not sure how I would name the side because there's also regular green beans mixed in. Green bean medley? Idk. With kid gloves, does the average person riding Amtrak even know what that word means?
@@jdkgcp 😂 It’s certainly a more accurate description.
I keep telling myself I'm going to take the L.A. to Seattle Coast Starlight, but haven't done it. Maybe later this year. A couple weeks ago the train didn't make it past Moorpark. It hit a truck and several cars derailed. :/