I traveled five hours on the Amtrak Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo. I traveled through California by train in February. One unexpected highlight of my trip was the five-hour ...

In January, I took a 15-hour ride through the American Southwest on Amtrak's California Zephyr, an overnight train. I paid $400 to stay in a private, enclosed 23-square-foot space with two chairs ...

Like an old school train conductor ... with pride, Amtrak announced this month that more people than ever are riding the nation’s passenger trains. But that’s not the case in California.