SPUG: Ride to Oscon?
Jennifer Hodgdon
yahgrp at poplarware.com
Thu Jun 21 15:19:14 PDT 2007
Bill Campbell wrote:
> Train service from Seattle to Portland is reasonably reliable, but the
> Portland to Seattle trains are commonly hours late. Their excuse is that
> the Northbound trains start in California and ar subject to delays. I
> would think that they would have figured out how to meet a schedule after a
> hundred years or so.
There is only one train per day that comes from California. The rest
either start in Eugene OR or Portland, and they tend to be on time.
The key is to make sure you are signed up to take the "Amtrak
Cascades" trains and avoid the "Coast Starlight". Actually, the Coast
Starlight is frequently slow/delayed in the southbound direction as well.
-- Jennifer
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Jennifer Hodgdon
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