Way to go if you don't want to fly. We live in a beautiful country. Most people don't realize you should see your country first, to appreciate others.

The dinners are fantastic on Amtrak. My son and I always get the sleeper car for 4 for extra room and get our own bathroom. Showering while moving is an art that takes a lot of work. We have traveled around the US and Canada twice.

Fantastic video. I’ve done the ride from LA to Seattle. 34 some hours with a 3.5 yr old.

These are the old Southern Pacific Daylights, they're a shell of what we used to have. I'm glad we still have this.

Excellent music track. Very cool and mellow. Great choice.

That LA station is beautiful.

That intro quote is amazing!

I have taken the Coast Starlight to Portland, it is a wonderful trip, the views are amazing. The people who take the train are very nice and the crew is top notched. Everyone should take the train somewhere at least once.

This was nicely presented, thank you. For others, there are some downsides too, look into it thoroughly, but overall, it is quite a deal, in my opinion. The big deal, to me, is that the person who normally drives the automobile, can actually sit back and enjoy the view, also that you can get up and walk around anytime you like, big bay windows, sipping your coffee and talking with people, and no matter the weather, you are secure and comfortable and tons of rooms.

Rode the Starlight from LA to Portland, OR., several years ago and booked a bedroom. Interesting experience and very scenic views but am glad that I decided beforehand to fly back to L.A. Riding the train one way was sufficient.

One of the best videos I have seen of this sort. I love travel by train.

At 3:45 mark: California Men's Colony prison, San Luis Obispo. My wife worked there 22 years. Many "famous" inmates.

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I have been on this train and l LOVED it !!!!!!!! Well worth the money and time....

Thank you SO much for this video. I'd been hunting for videos that really depict what the train experience is like, as i am debating taking a trip to a national park by train. I learned more from this 7 minutes than the last 7 videos I watched before it. Awesome job!

Amazing video. Im going on this train in July 2017 from Seattle to San Francisco, and from the sights im seeing i am now more and more excited!

omagosh! I SO want to do this! Thank you for making the video and letting us get a taste of this kind of travel.

That was amazing. The scenery was spectacular! Thank you so much for sharing this.

Came across you randomly. Rode Amtrak between Portland and Salem a few times this last year. Realized I LOVED riding on trains! This video was bliss, over too soon. Thank you for sharing.

Love the video! The best time to take the Coast Starlight is in summer when there is more daylight. The route is one of the most beautiful in the country, but it doesn't help if it's dark outside!

Nice to see them keeping all those old station buildings and not going modern with the looks.

I've been, from Chicago, to San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Jackson Mississippi, D.C., Atlanta. Love to travel on Amtrak.

My sister and I took this from L.A. to Seattle. Had a blast! The meals were great. The staff was great. The views were great. The best part was sleeping through Sacramento! 😄

Looks like a really nice train - thanks for sharing.

This video is wonderful!! because you can see the beautiful US landascapes and design of the big cars of amtrak trains. Congratulations

I took a coast starlight 14/11 from LA to Sac (RT) and enjoyed the scenery, I went coach, but i feel the need to go on another one this time across the country LAX to CHI and really see what train life is like, I love these videos makes me feel like I'm on the train even though I'm not.

I LOVE the Coast Starlight very much! I have ridden on Amtrak long distance trains a number of times and I love it because sleeping on the train is fun, plus the beautiful scenery! One time, I actually observed a live birth take place on the train, I’m not joking. Back in late March 2019, I was riding the California Zephyr from Davis to Glenwood Springs and on the train, there was pregnant 19 year old girl from SFSU traveling from Emeryville to Denver with her boyfriend. They normally fly home from college for holidays/breaks but because their due date was close (due date was April 5th and they departed on March 29th), they had to use the train since airlines do not allow women to fly in the last 6 weeks of pregnancy. During the ride at 1 AM, the girl’s water broke and the attendant for our sleeping car (Justin Woods, a young guy in his early 20s based in Chicago) volunteered to deliver the baby since he had seen how it was done online before. The girl agreed and Justin did so in which he went into the first aid kit, got his gloves on, then squeezed himself into the roomette to have the girl push while he caught the baby when she was born. The baby ended up being born on the train - a healthy baby girl in a ROOMETTE!!! It was a fabulous story and the girl, her newborn and boyfriend were taken off the train by paramedics at the next railroad crossing. The train was in a remote location between Elko and Salt Lake City at the moment which required a helicopter to meet the train and have her airlifted to the nearest hospital which was more than an hour away (an ambulance can’t drive more than 30 minutes away from it’s base and SLC would take longer than that, so they used a helicopter). As it is, I observed the whole thing as I was holding the girl’s left leg as well as recording this with her boyfriend’s phone. I’ve wondered - if you are female, suppose this happened to you where you (or your wife/girlfriend) suddenly went into labor on an Amtrak train and the train was going across a remote location at the moment. Would you at all be able to tolerate giving birth unmediated, while crammed into a Roomette, on a bed that was not flexible (unlike in the hospital), on a train that speeding up to 90 MPH, the baby’s umbilical cord having to stay attached to you until you got to a hospital (no scissors/clamps on the train), and the person delivering your baby is an Amtrak conductor/attendant with no medical training or license of any kind??? Seriously, this girl was incredibly brave and was lucky that there were no complications, PLUS it only took 20 minutes for her to push the baby out (water broke at 1 AM, and the baby was born at 1:22 AM) What do you think of all this!!!???

Thank you for sharing this! I was looking for an alternative to flying, and thanks to you, I've found it. Not much difference in cost, but the experience will be priceless!! Thanks again!!

Union Station is a beautiful building.

Nice job. Looks like a great way to travel.

Good, straight informational documentary. Thank you for scouting the train ride for us.

Enjoyed the video. Rode on this train for only 4 hours last week (to pick up the California Zephyr east) and was wondering what the full ride was like. Thanks for sharing!

That's one thing on my bucket list. To travel the USA by rail.

Great video, great travel, thanks for sharing it. I wish I could take it. Regards.

Great job! This video was AMAZING! Today ill be taking the train from Portland Oregon to Boston Massachusetts in a bedroom on all 3 trains. Coast starlight to Sacramento California Zephyr to Chicago then the lakeshore limited to Boston. Again thanks for this awesome video.

I’m planning a trip from San Diego to Vancouver and I really want to take the train there! This looks so beautiful.

Old train stations can be so beautiful.

These Are Amazing Pictures! Buisness Class And The Dome Car Are My favorite! I Went On This Train and It had a pool! And I Was like "No Way!!"

The video footage from 255 to 309 is definitely NOT the Parlour Car! It is the Lounge Car next to coach. I have taken the Coast Starlight to Oregon and Seattle many, many times; and I know that train every bit as well as the conductor, and that was definitely the Lounge Car, not the Parlour Car.

I really enjoyed your video, thanks so much for sharing 💖😊🌍🚈

Dear friend: In the next month of June, I will travel through the United States, start in Chicago with the Empire Builder in Seattle, from there I will take the Coast Starlight to Los Angeles and return from San Francisco in the California Zephir to Chicago. Any comments about it, information, videos, blogs, etc., will be very beneficial for my trip. From already thank you very much. Sincerely, Fausto Brindisi, from Rosario, Argentina.

Even so, it was a beautifully done video. I love that train!

You did a really great job! I have been looking for a video just like this to know what the rooms and every else on a train is all about. Thank you =)

I am goung to mount Shasta from Uk next April. Adore the train and watching this video has inspired me to take the train from Chicago. Thanks so much xxxx

We went from Seattle to Los Angeles, and back again, using one of those bedrooms. We had all our meals in the room. Total comfort. I have always wondered about the name of the prison that we passed. It seemed to be out in the wilderness.

Amtrak's Coast Starlight is their only train that has Pacific Parlour lounge cars. The 'Parlour' car shown in the video is a standard Amtrak Superliner Sightseer Lounge (SSL) car, NOT a Pacific Parlour car. Amtrak occasionally needs to take a Pacific Parlour car out of service for maintenance and substitutes a regular Superliner SSL car. The Pacific Parlour cars are restored Budd Hi-Level lounge cars and Amtrak only has 5 of them. Budd only built 6 of the cars. The Budd Hi-Level cars first appeared in 1952 on the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe's all coach El Capitan train that ran between Chicago and LA.

Very cool video. L.A. Union station looks much better. Last time I was there, during the riots, it looked derelict, dark and was full of pigeons. Thank you!

Excellent photos! I just returned from this trip. what a blast! I am ready to go again! I'm just now looking at my photos and videos and see that I didn't get the shots I wanted. Yours are spectacular!

Great video on my most favorite Amtrak route. I travel long distance by Amtrak. The scenery along the Coast Starlight/Pacific Surfliner route is fantastic, I rode the Coast Starlight 3 times and I just enjoy the scenery along the California Coast very much

had made this trip in coach with no problem...love amtrak and since I can sleep comfortably in a reclining seat, I avoid the sleeper; have used sleeper on other trips, it is ok and your presentation is very nice and comprehensive....thank you

that mountain you had seen when you woke up was mount shasta

Well, that was sweet...very relaxing...I'd LOVE to do this trip. Thanks.

Hold phone horizontal for WIDE screen look, otherwise I like your coverage & narrative.😎

IMHO, the best way to travel.

Beautiful video. I’ve done roomettes on the Coast Starlight, but not yet a bedroom. I don’t think I want to go my whole life being too thrifty to do it. Being self-contained, the bedrooms are like miniature hotel rooms. Anyone who has to make frequent trips to the restroom would find the en-suite feature particularly nice. A shower 🚿 en-suite vs. in-car doesn’t rank terribly high on my list, but a double bed 🛌 seems like a dream. When considering the cost of a sleeping car, you also have to factor in the cost of meals 🥘 in the dining car, and the cost of a hotel room 🏨. The more subjective element is roomette vs. bedroom. It certainly is roomier for two travelers.

I'm thinking about doing the loop. LA to Seattle. Seattle to Chicago. Chicago back to San Fran. I've never stepped foot on an Amtrak before :)

A very nice video. Thanks very much.

Mexifornia looks beautiful.

Great video

Thanks for filming in vertical

I just completed a trip from San Diego to Portland yesterday. I took my granddaughter on an excursion for her graduation from high school. We were disappointed at the accommodations and lack of cleanliness. The bathrooms stunk so bad we could barely use them. These bathrooms were gross and I am not exaggerating! Windows were dirty...which is the whole point of traveling by train! It was pretty much an inner city bad bus experience by rail. Never again!!

What a beautiful country the US is!!

New fan here. Awesome Description. Awesome video. Thank you.

I love Amtrak & the Coast Starlight.

Love this video!

This is wonderful! Thank you for the tour. May I ask, who did the music for your video? I love it!

If I could afford one of the 'bedrooms' (which are insanely expensive) I would never leave the room. Just have them bring the meals to the room (or bring my own food). I'd be happy to be able to afford a 'roommette'.

My issue with AMTRAK is that if I want to go to FL I need to go 4 hours to a train location, travel 8 hours to Chicago spend the day there, then spend 2 days going to FL. 1/2 of a weeks vacation spent on the train. There has to be a way for other major cities to be involved.

Personally, I have been on this same exact train twice. Going from Sac, CA to Portland, OR and another time from Sac, CA to Anaheim, Ca

Excellent!!

Really enjoyed that - thank you.

I find this a relaxing video for me for some reason lol

I love Amtrak

Great video. Loved the experience through your eyes.

what time of the year did you go?? Planning a trip myself.

Nice

Amtrak has the best cheese pretzels known to mankind

Great video. What's not to like??

Looks very interesting. Thanks for posting. I gave you a bump and would appreciate one back. All the best.

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looking forward to the trip.

Thank you for this video. I wonder if it was done by a woman? I love the information given, and the clean, consistent approach to inform others without extraneous information.

Excellent!

Nice!

Rule number one in Video. Never film video in portrait mode on your phone.

Very good job on the video. Thank you for posting it. One question: How much room for storage is there under the sofa? How high and how deep?

I enjoyed your video very much.

I can't figure out how to ever get what I want on Amtrak, which is a bedroom from San Luis Obispo to Portland, Oregon. I never see anything but roometts

Nicely photographed and edited.

thanks for this great video

You missed the real people who ride coach.

Lovely video, just subscribed.

Okay, I've got to know what the name of that music is. Please tell me! It is beautiful.

Great video. We will be travelling Los Angeles to Portland in December. Are the sleepers on both sides of the train...meaning is there a choice if we want to be on the ocean side?

how was the shower,did it leak out to carpet,did it ruin toilet paper in holder?door rattles?speaker for announcements working?upper berth support bars rattle? reason I ask is we had these problems last year.

Awesome..thank you :)

My husband and I are planning a trip in the fall, from Toledo OH, taking southwest Chief to California, then Coast Starlight to Portland Oregon. Our trip back, will be the Empire Builder from Portland Oregon back to Toledo. We'll be staying in a Deluxe room the whole way, except the 4 hr trip from Toledo to Chicago and than of course, from Chicago to Toledo. I have traveled by train many times, he has not. I took many train trips from Southern California to Northern California as a child. It was about a 7 hour ride. Always way to short for me, I never wanted to get off. I took a one way trip with my 4 yr old son in 1998 from Portland to Pittsburgh when we moved, he was a complete angel until the last 30 min getting into Pittsburgh. He got super antsy and wanted off! (Who could blame him at that point) We had coach seats! WHAT WAS I THINKING! Never again for a trip that long. I can not wait to experience a more comfortable trip with my husband this time. :) Thank you very much for sharing your video, I have been watching them for weeks now. Ever since we decided to take this trip. It's so relaxing! Any tips for rail riding, please let me know :)

so much like the Hindenburg the romance of airship travel lives on

It's not, "the preferences of landscape perspective, instead of portrait, in the KZfaq community"... TVs are landscape shaped, not portrait shaped. If you film vertically, the entire both sides of the screen are giant black bars. If you film horizontally, your video will occupy the ENTIRE SCREEN. Much bigger video... much better.

Question if you ride a train like this just a few questions of 1.can you ride the same train all the way back to your state 2. If not will it be the same amount to ride on the same train or another train back