Amtrak restoring Coast Starlight STUB service SAC to LAX on 2-6-08

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Here is that complete Amtrak announcement about the restored STUB version of the Coast Starlight. This stub service will only have a sightseer lounge car + coaches. This stub service will also run over the Sacramento to Los Angeles portion of the Starlight route: ---Daniel ==================================================== AMTRAK RESTORING PARTIAL COAST STARLIGHT SERVICE http://www.railpac.org/2008/02/02/amtrak-restoring-partial-coast-starlight-service/ RailPAC NOTE: A Partial WIN FOR RAIL ADVOCATES! AMTRAK PRESS RELEASE February 1, 2008

 

Service available between Los Angeles and Sacramento OAKLAND – Amtrak is restoring service on a portion of the route of the Coast Starlight, beginning Wednesday, February 6. Following discussions with the Union Pacific Railroad, service on the route was suspended between Los Angeles and Seattle on January 19, due to massive mudslides over the railroad north of Chemult, Ore. All railroad traffic through that area has been suspended and is not expected to resume for many weeks. The first northbound departure of this version of the Coast Starlight, Train 14, will leave Los Angeles on February 6 at 10:15 a.m., making all regularly-scheduled stops and arriving in Sacramento later that night at 11:59 p.m. The first day of service in both directions will be Thursday, February 7, when the southbound Coast Starlight, Train 11, will depart Sacramento at 6:35 a.m., making all regularly-scheduled stops and arriving in Los Angeles at 9:00 p.m. There will be no Amtrak train service north of Sacramento, but related Amtrak Thruway Motorcoaches in Northern California and Amtrak Cascades trains between Eugene, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., via Portland and Seattle, are operating. During this partial service restoration, only Coach class will be offered. No sleeping car accommodations will be available. Food and beverage service will be available in a lounge car. The more formal dining service usually offered on the regular Coast Starlight will be suspended until the resumption of full route between Los Angeles and Seattle. The Coast Starlight will continue to operate as an all-reserved train and passengers will be able to check bags at stations that normally offer that service. Posted by Russ Jackson on Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, at 11:52 am, and filed under Reports.