Robert Schwandl's Urban Rail Blog

While staying for a couple of days in Los Angeles, I took a day trip (8 Aug 2012) down to Oceanside to test the Sprinter and then take a f...

My last stop on this year's U.S. tour was Los Angeles. I had already been here in 2008, and as it is actually a city I wouldn't go...

After an 18-hour train ride on the Coast Starlight from Portland, OR, I arrived in Richmond, CA with only a 30 minutes delay. Richmond st...

On a relatively short (I'm writing this on my 18-hour trip to San Francisco), only 4 hour long train journey from Seattle I got to Po...