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The Spirit of Washington dinner train was a dinner train that operated for 15 years from Renton, Washington, with trips heading to Woodinville and back, and then for three months out of Tacoma, with trips heading from Tacoma to Lake Kapowsin near Mount Rainier. On October 29, 2007, the operators of the dinner train announced they would be ...
Transcisco Tours (reporting mark MCHX) was an excursion railroad offering service between San Jose, California and Reno, Nevada on the twice-a-week Sierra 49er Express train. . Parent company, Transcisco Industries, was also responsible for operating The Texan dinner train near San Antonio under a subsidiary company, the Transcisco Texas Railw
Portions of Dreamstar’s planned route also coincide with Metrolink’s Ventura County Line between Los Angeles and Montalvo, and Caltrain’s corridor between Gilroy and San Francisco. Dreamstar’s service retraces Southern Pacific’s Lark that ran from 1910 to 1968, as well as Amtrak’s short-lived Spirit of California. [1]
The southbound train departed at 7:55 pm and arrived at 9:00 am the next day. The California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, budgeted $1.7 million towards the train's first year of operation and expected 160,000 passengers the first year, rising to 300,000 in five years. The train carried coaches, a cafe, and two sleeping cars. [1]
Chicago, Illinois–San Francisco, California [1968] 1954–1971 San Francisco Express: Santa Fe: Chicago, Illinois–San Francisco, California (with through cars to other California cities) [1908] 1905–1915 San Francisco Express: Southern Pacific: San Francisco, California–Portland, Oregon [1918] 1911–1927 San Francisco Limited
The extension's approval represents a significant step in making California's high-speed bullet train between L.A. and San Francisco a reality.
The Bay Area hosts several regional commuter rail operations, as well as inter-city rail. Commuter and intercity. Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) [2] Amtrak (California Zephyr, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquins) [3] Caltrain [4] Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit [5] Rapid transit. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) [6] Light rail ...
In November 2024 Amtrak truncated the Silver Star at Washington and merged it with the Capitol Limited, creating a single Chicago–Washington–Miami route: the Floridian. [28] This was the first direct train service between the Midwest and Florida since the 1979 discontinuance of the original Floridian, albeit following a longer route.