What’s wrong with the southbound Coast Starlight these days?
Or: Who asked for an overnight train from the Bay Area to Los Angeles - we already have one, just take the Star”late” …
Recent delays of the southbound Coast Starlight, Amtrak #11 into Los Angeles:
Sunday, June 25: 15 hours, 28 minutes - arrived 12:28pm on Monday
Monday, June 26: 15 hours, 32 minutes - arrived 12:32pm on Tuesday
Tuesday, June 27: 8 hours, 17 minutes - arrived 5:17am on Wednesday
Wednesday, June 28: delay as of 11:02pm - 10 hours, 13 minutes - estimated to arrive 6:15am on Thursday
Posted in: Uncategorized | June 28, 2006 11:30 pm
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Anonymous, on August 18, 2006 @ 2:27 pm
I just got off the Coast Starlight this morning in LA a little before 5:00 am. It was supposed to at 9:00 pm the night before. Not only was the train really late, but the service was terrible. We ate in the dining car, and the wait staff seem to have no idea what the menu was, refused to give my son his choice of side dishes, twice tried to take my food away before I finished it, didn’t inform us of menu items that were sold out until about 10 minute after we made the order, and generally were astonishingly incompetent. I gave a pretty big tip anyway, and no one said thank you.
The rolling stock is pretty old and seems to be in less than ideal condition. The first car we rode in made a horrible groaning noise whenever the train was at low speed. Another car smelled like something had died in the ventilation system.
When we arrived in LA, we had to wait almost half an hour for the checked baggage to come off the train.
All in all a really bad trip. I had specifically booked this train, because I wanted to see the Pacific Coast views in the daytime, but we went through all those areas at night.
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