Rails To Rodeos - 2006
A January rail adventure on the
Southwest Chief, California
Zephyr, and Coast Starlight
between Los Angeles and
Denver
Photos and Report by Carl Morrison,
Carl@TrainWeb.com
Schedule:
The following schedule is online at:
http://www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct05/P03.pdf
I boarded at Fullerton, CA, second from
bottom on the schedule above, and move through these station in
order: Riverside, San Bernardino, Victorville, Barstow, and
Needles, CA, Kingman, Williams, Flagstaff (where Don joined me) and
Winslow, AZ, Gallup, Albuquerque, Lamy, Las Vegas, and disembarked in
Raton, NM.
The following schedule is online at:
http://www.amtrak.com/timetable/oct05/P05.pdf
I began in Denver and went west (down
the schedule) through Fraser-Winter Park, Granby, Glenwood Springs,
(where I spent one night) Grand Junction, CO, and Green River, Helper,
Provo, and Salt Lake City, UT, Elko, Winnemucca, Sparks, and Reno, NV,
Truckee, Colfax, Roseville, and Sacramento, CA. I stayed one
night in Sacramento, then boarded the Coast Starlight for home.
My Coast Starlight adventure began in
Sacramento, (about midway down the schedule above) and I passed through
the stations of Davis, Martinez, Emeryville, Oakland, San Jose,
Salinas, Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Simi
Valley, Van Nuys, CA, before arriving in Los Angles Union Station.
In LAUS, we transferred from the Coast Starlight to Surfliner
#596 for the final hour of our journey to Fullerton, CA, making a
complete round trip!
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