When Can Amtrak Resume Service Coast Starlight

Amtrak Service To Los Angeles To Resume This Week...With A Take hold of

Published July thirteen, 2021 at 3:44 PM PDT

Chris Lehman

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KLCC

Amtrak is one time again selling tickets for people from Oregon and Washington to travel to California after a wildfire damaged a trestle on the road. But the ride on the Coast Starlight won't resemble a typical railroad journey.

The Lava Fire near Mount Shasta, California, burned a Union Pacific railroad bridge that carries Amtrak trains along the route from Seattle to Los Angeles. For about two weeks, Amtrak has canceled the Coast Starlight north of Sacramento while repairs on the trestle are underway.

While riders between Seattle and Eugene can use Cascades trains for local travel, it left Klamath Falls and Chemult without any passenger runway service. And it left the entire Pacific Northwest without any direction track connection to California.

Starting Thursday, Amtrak will resume trains to southern Oregon by running a northern section of the Coast Starlight between Seattle and Klamath Falls. Only getting to or from California will require a transfer to a bus that runs overnight in either direction betwixt Klamath Falls and Sacramento.

In Sacramento, southbound riders can board a different set up of equipment to consummate the southern portion of the Coast Starlight route, which continues through Oakland and San Jose on its way to Los Angeles.

Amtrak has not offered an estimate on when full track service will resume, which will depend on how quickly Spousal relationship Pacific can re-open the tracks in northern California. Just in a discover to passengers, it says the busing arrangement could last until September.

Amtrak says charabanc riders will be offered a residue break at a truck cease between Klamath Falls and Sacramento. The bus will also make intermediate stops in northern California cities normally served by the Declension Starlight, including Dunsmuir, Redding and Chico.

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Chris Lehman has been reporting on Oregon issues since 2006. He joined the KLCC news department in Dec, 2018. Chris was born and raised in Pennsylvania, and graduated from Temple Academy with a caste in journalism. His public dissemination career includes stops in Louisiana and Illinois. Chris has filed for national programs including "Morning time Edition" and "All Things Considered."

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