In July 2008, refurbished Pacific Parlour cars returned to service as part of the relaunch. During early summer 2008, the Coast Starlight was relaunched with new amenities and refurbished equipment. Ridership declined by 26% between 19 as freight congestion and track maintenance on the Union Pacific Railroad reduced the Coast Starlight 's on-time performance to 2%, which Amtrak characterized as "dismal." By mid-summer in 2006 delays of 5–11 hours were common. In 1999, the Coast Starlight was rerouted onto the more direct ex- Western Pacific Sacramento Subdivision between Marysville and Sacramento, with the Marysville stop closed. On April 26, 1982, the train was rerouted via Roseville on the Southern Pacific Valley and Martinez Subdivisions, with stops added at Sacramento, Chico, and Marysville, per request from the state. That route included a stop at Orland, but bypassed Sacramento.
The Coast Starlight originally used the Southern Pacific West Valley Line between Tehama and Davis. From November 10, 1996, to October 25, 1997, through coaches were transferred between the Coast Starlight and San Diegan at Los Angeles. Īn additional train, the Spirit of California, ran the section of the route between Sacramento and Los Angeles on an overnight schedule from October 25, 1981, to September 30, 1983. Positive response led to Amtrak to retain this service, and the Coast Daylight name was dropped on May 19, 1974. On June 10, 1973, Amtrak began running the combined Coast Daylight/Starlight daily for the summer months. Both trains were cut back from San Diego to Los Angeles in April 1972, replaced by a third San Diegan. The Seattle–San Diego train became the Coast Daylight/Starlight (#11-12) northbound and Coast Starlight/Daylight (#13-14) southbound. On November 14, Amtrak extended the Oakland–Los Angeles train to San Diego, renumbered it to #12/13, and renamed it Coast Daylight. The unnamed train (#11/12) ran three days a week on the other four days, another unnamed train (#98/99) ran between Oakland and Los Angeles. With the start of Amtrak operations on May 1, 1971, a single train began running between Seattle and San Diego. The Seattle–San Diego route was initially left out of plans for Railpax (later Amtrak) until protests from politicians in California, Oregon, and Washington. The Coast Starlight in the Cuesta Hills above San Luis Obispo in 1985 The Santa Fe ran the San Diegan between Los Angeles and San Diego.
The Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) and Union Pacific Railroad ran three daily round trips between Portland and Seattle. The SP also operated the tri-weekly Cascade between Oakland and Portland, Oregon. The closest equivalent was the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)'s West Coast, which ran via the San Joaquin Valley from Los Angeles to Portland from 1924 to 1949, with through cars to Seattle via the Great Northern Railway (GN).īy 1971, the SP operated just two daily trains between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area: the Los Angeles–San Francisco Coast Daylight via the Coast Line, and the Los Angeles–Oakland San Joaquin Daylight via the Central Valley. Before the formation of Amtrak, no passenger train ran the entire length of the West Coast.
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