It takes 35 hours to get from Los Angeles to Seattle on Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train. Thirty-five. Hours. Tasked with finding out what it’s like to ride a train for a day and a half, I armed myself ...

I rode Amtrak's Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The journey took around 12 hours. It was my first long-haul train trip, and I wish I would've booked business class instead of coach.

It takes 35 hours to get from Los Angeles to Seattle on Amtrak's Coast Starlight train. Thirty-five. Hours. Tasked with finding out what it's like to ride a train for a day and a half, I armed myself ...

I'm going the wrong way. It's 8 a.m., the beginning of a 1,377-mile, 2,216 km journey north by northwest, and I'm going south by southeast. At least I'm on the train. Well, a train, and one I had to ...

LOS ANGELES — It was late Friday night and we were scouring the usual sites touting the top things to do in Los Angeles. Uninspired by our options and facing a long weekend without obligations, my ...

There are certainly more efficient ways to get from Los Angeles to Seattle than sitting in a metal box for 34 hours. But Amtrak’s Coast Starlight train wasn’t designed for people who are in a rush.