The best thing to do is to get on the California Zephyr at Emeryville to Chicago, change to the Capitol Limited to Washington, DC, and change to the Silver Star to Miami. That will take 4 days and 6 hours.
On the Silver Meteor, a little under 26 hours.
Amtrak is not a good option since you will have to go up to Washington, DC and then catch another train to come back down to New Orleans.
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Amtrak was founded in 1991.
Amtrak trains do not serve San Francisco from Los Angeles. You need to go to Oakland and take a bus across to San Francisco. It takes the Coast Starlight 11 hours and 14 minutes from Los Angeles to Oakland. The Amtrak Thruway bus takes 20 minutes to the Hyatt Regency Financial District and goes on to the Ferry Building, Pier 39 of Fisherman's Wharf and the SF Shopping Center at 835 Market Street.
Amtrak is not an efficient way to travel between Atlanta and Miami. You have to take a train to Washington, DC and then change to the train to your destination. It takes about two days. The Greyhound bus takes about 16 hours.
Leaving from Newark or Trenton, you can reach Montreal during a long day of travel. Toronto is accessible on Amtrak, but requires an out-of-the-way trip to Chicago -- making for a multi-day trip. Check out www.amtrak.com for an itinerary.
No. At no point does Amtrak ever travel through Long Island. However, if you ever scootch up into Westchester County, in some points of Westchester county, you can catch part of the Empire State and Northeast Corridor lines of Amtrak.
There is free short-term and long-term parking in front of the Lincoln, IL Amtrak station.
Long term parking for the Amtrak Ann Arbor station is on the northwest side of the Broadway bridge. The Amtrak station is on one side of the tracks (south), the long term parking lot is on the other (north). To get to the parking lot, you have to drive over the bridge.
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The Amtrak station in Portage, Wisconsin has six long-term parking spaces. Amtrak shares a parking lot with Canadian Pacific Railway. If the Amtrak spots are filled, you may park in the CPR spots at the west end of the lot. There is no parking attendant, so Amtrak suggests you call the Portage Police Department, and they will jot your plate number down in their dispatch notes.