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Why is Coast Starlight -> San Joaquins the way it is (is it just for delays?) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really wish I could take the Coast Starlight -> San Joaquins without a bus transfer. Coast Starlight's scheduled arrival in Sacramento is at 6:48am, the only departing San Joaquins train for the day leaves 20 minutes earlier. Meaning if you need to take SJ you have to wait, take a bus, wait some more, and catch up with another SJ train 3 hours later. I really wish they would run more trains from Sacramento but im sure this is coming in the future.

The northbound route doesn't have a bus connection and just has you wait 3 hours in Martinez. Is this southbound transfer just because they assume they could have a delay so they don't want to hold up the only southbound train from Sac?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My uninformed guess is that the timetable for those train services may be constrained by what the host railroads allow.