Amtrak service to Las Vegas goes to Needles, California and continues on Amtrak's Thruway Motorcoach bus service.

Amtrak's California Zephyr and Coast Starlight also pass through Dixon without stopping.

* ARC ( station ), Amtrak's station in Arcata, California

Amtrak's passenger train, the California Zephyr goes through Lyon County.

At approximately 2: 53 AM, Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives, and en route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the Bayou Canot bridge at high speed and derailed at a kink in the track caused by a barge captain who rammed the bridge by making a wrong turn in the waterway, and failed to report the accident.

California Zephyr railcar at the Maricopa, AZ Amtrak stationMaricopa is currently the closest stop from Phoenix on Amtrak's Sunset Limited and Texas Eagle trains.

Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner long distance rail line has stops at Glendale, Burbank Airport station, Van Nuys, and Chatsworth station, before proceeding on to Ventura County, Santa Barbara, and Northern California or Union Station and San Diego.

* October 29, 2000: Service on Amtrak's California Zephyr is upgraded to daily.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief departs Los Angeles Union Station in downtown LA at 6: 15 p. m. ( Pacific Time ), making its way through suburban Fullerton, Riverside, and San Bernardino, California.

Amtrak's California Zephyr uses the Donner Pass route.

The San Joaquin is Amtrak's fifth-busiest service and the railroad's third-busiest in California.

Cascades is Amtrak's eighth-busiest route, and it carries the most passengers of any of the railroad's services outside of the Northeastern U. S. or California.

At approximately 2: 53 AM, Amtrak's Sunset Limited train, powered by three locomotives ( one GE Genesis P40DC number 819 in the front, and two EMD F40PHs, numbers 262 and 312 ) en route from Los Angeles, California to Miami, Florida with 220 passengers and crew aboard, crossed the bridge at a high speed and derailed at the kink.

Occasionally, locomotives from Amtrak's national system, such as GE P42s, can be spotted working on Amtrak California routes.

:* – Amtrak's new Oakland Coliseum station in Oakland, California, opens.

The Pacific Surfliner paint scheme was created especially for Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner trains in California and the short lived Las Vegas Talgo.

It later was truncated to Salt Lake City when Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr was rerouted from the Overland Route to the Denver and Rio Grande Western and renamed California Zephyr in 1983.

Amtrak's Spirit of California was created by California Governor Jerry Brown as a state supported Section 403 ( b ) passenger train.

Service to points east was provided via a connection with Amtrak's California Zephyr.

This report also recommended the discontinuance of the Chicago — Oakland ( San Francisco ) San Francisco Zephyr — which, as the California Zephyr, has gone on to become one of Amtrak's most popular trains.

Amtrak's California Zephyr follows this route through Ruby Canyon between Grand Junction, Colorado, and Thompson Springs, Utah.

Amtrak's original Illinois Zephyr included a stop in Aurora which would be discontinued on April 28, 1985, in favor of Naperville.

On February 14, 1975 it pulled Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr from Denver, Colorado to Cheyenne, Wyoming with a pair of EMD SDP40Fs.

Amtrak's Empire Builder between Chicago and Seattle stops once daily in each direction at nearby Midway Station.

The train continues as Amtrak's daily Empire Builder, which uses former Great Northern tracks west of St. Paul, Minnesota.

* In 1993 Amtrak's Sunset Limited daily railroad train was extended eastward to the Atlantic Ocean, making it the first transcontinental passenger train route in the United States to be operated by a single company.

Amtrak's daily Crescent, Carolinian and Piedmont trains connect Greensboro with the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Virginia, Raleigh, North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans.

The nearest rail passenger services are provided at Anniston, which is served daily by Amtrak's The Crescent to Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, and in the other direction to New Orleans.

Amtrak's Texas Eagle provides daily passenger train service to Malvern on a route extending from Chicago to Dallas and Los Angeles, and railroad freight service to Malvern is provided by Union Pacific Railroad and the Arkansas Midland Railroad, the latter operating over the route of the original Hot Springs Railroad.

The Harvey House Railroad Depot is served twice daily by Amtrak's Southwest Chief, from Chicago to Los Angeles and reverse.

Amtrak's daily service to Sebring consists of two trains each from the Silver Meteor and Silver Star, heading south to Miami and north to Tampa, Orlando and New York City.

Used many times daily by CSX freight trains, it is also used by Amtrak's Cardinal passenger train, train numbers 50 and 51, which carries passengers from Chicago to New York City using this bridge.

Amtrak's daily Crescent train connects Slidell with New York City, Washington, D. C., Atlanta, Birmingham, and New Orleans.

* Amtrak's Empire Builder ( stops daily at Detroit Lakes ' Amtrak station )

Red Wing's Amtrak station is served by Amtrak's daily in each direction between Chicago to the east, and Seattle and Portland on the west.

It is now served by Amtrak's daily in each direction between Chicago and Seattle and Portland.

Glasgow is on the Hi-Line of the BNSF Railway and is served daily westbound and eastbound by Amtrak's Empire Builder.

It is served by Amtrak's Heartland Flyer, wichi operates daily in both directions between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Fort Worth, Texas.

Amtrak's Cascades provides daily passenger rail service to Stanwood at a new station which opened on November 21, 2009.

An Amtrak railway station opened at the airport in 2005 ; the station is served by Amtrak's Hiawatha Service line running between Chicago and Milwaukee several times daily.

Amtrak's " Pennsylvanian " operates daily runs between New York and Pittsburgh over the former PRR Main Line.

It is Amtrak's busiest long-distance route and busiest daily train, carrying more than 500, 000 travelers annually from 2007-2010.

MARC's Brunswick Line commuter trains and Amtrak's daily Capitol Limited share the station building with Metro.

Amtrak's Pennsylvanian rounds the curve once in each direction daily on its journey between Pittsburgh and New York City.

Amtrak's combined Cardinal and Hoosier State trains traverse the former Monon from Crawfordsville to the Indiana state line near Chicago, with one train in each direction daily.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief already provided a Chicago to Kansas City route and the state of Missouri's " Missouri Service " only funded the extension of the Ann Rutledge to provide daily service between Kansas City and St. Louis with continuing services to Chicago via Springfield.