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The Pacific Surfliner is a 350-mile (560 km) passenger train service serving the communities on the coast of Southern California between San Diego and San Luis Obispo.. The Pacific Surfliner is Amtrak's third-busiest service (exceeded in ridership only by the Northeast Regional and Acela), and the busiest outside the Northeast Corridor.
While the Orange County Line shares trackage with Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner trains, its northernmost stations (from Los Angeles to Fullerton, excluding Commerce) are shared with the 91/Perris Valley Line and nearly all of its other stations with the Inland Empire–Orange County Line (from Orange to Oceanside).
Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center will be the eastern terminus of the OC Streetcar, a 4.15-mile (6.68 km) streetcar line through Downtown Santa Ana, a major regional employment area, to a new transit center and Park and Ride in Garden Grove at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue (both major bus corridors).
Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner travels throughout the corridor. The San Diego Trolley light rail shares the Surf Line's right of way in San Diego, running adjacent to the heavy rail tracks. For about a mile in Oceanside , the Sprinter service parallels the Surf Line before heading east on the Escondido Subdivision towards Escondido, California .
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Planned Amtrak and Caltrain station City College† Sacramento: 2029 San Joaquin: Existing SacRT light rail station; future ACE station Midtown Sacramento† Sacramento: 2026 San Joaquin: Planned Amtrak and ACE station Old North Sacramento† Sacramento: 2029 San Joaquin: Planned Amtrak and ACE station Tamien† San Jose [6] Capitol Corridor
I took the Amtrak Winter Park Express, also called the "Ski Train," from Denver to Winter Park. The affordable two-hour train ride was pleasant and had wonderful views. I loved dodging traffic and ...
When it comes to traveling overnight on Amtrak, I recommend packing items such as a water bottle, essential oils, a padlock, and lots of snacks. I took a 16-hour Amtrak ride in a roomette.