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Phase I, about 520 miles (840 km) long using high-speed rail through the Central Valley, will connect San Francisco to Los Angeles. In Phase 2, the route will be extended in the Central Valley north to Sacramento, and from east through the Inland Empire and then south to San Diego. The total system length will be about 800 miles (1,300 km) long ...
The Lark was to overnight travelers what the Morning Daylight and Noon Daylight were to day travelers in the San Francisco–Los Angeles market: safe, reliable, deluxe transportation. The Lark was the only streamlined all-room sleeping car train to operate entirely within a single state and the only all-room train operating strictly on the West ...
Coach fare San Francisco to Los Angeles was $9.47 one way; in 1938 it dropped to $6 to match Santa Fe's Golden Gates. Daylights in the December 1945 timetable By June 30, 1939, the streamlined Daylights had carried 268.6 million passenger miles (432.3 million kilometres) on 781,141 train miles (1,257,125 kilometres) for an average occupancy of ...
This Central Valley segment is 171 miles (275 km) long and thus spans 35% of the total San Francisco–Los Angeles route. The IOS is projected to commence revenue service as a self-contained high-speed rail system between 2030 and 2033, at a cost of $28–35 billion, and will replace current San Joaquins service south of Merced.
Amtrak California (reporting mark CDTX) is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak regional rail routes in California – the Capitol Corridor, the Pacific Surfliner, and the San Joaquins [1] – and their associated connecting network of Amtrak Thruway transportation services.
The Third and Townsend Depot was the main train station in the city of San Francisco for much of the first three quarters of the 20th century. The station at Third Street and Townsend Street served as the northern terminus for Southern Pacific's Peninsula Commute line between San Francisco and San Jose (forerunner of Caltrain) and long-distance trains between San Francisco and Los Angeles via ...
Amtrak Coast Starlight (Los Angeles–Seattle) Metrolink Ventura County Line (Ventura–Los Angeles) Caltrain (San Francisco–Gilroy) Altamont Corridor Express (San Jose–Stockton) The southern part of the Coast Line is the northern portion of the 351-mile-long (565 km) LOSSAN Rail Corridor between San Luis Obispo and San Diego.
Amtrak Thruway routes are timed to meet trains and offer connections to points in Southern California (including Los Angeles Union Station where passengers can continue their journey on the Pacific Surfliner or Amtrak's long-distance trains), the city of San Francisco, the Central Coast, the North Coast, the High Desert (including Las Vegas ...