Amtrak LAKE SHORE LIMITED

LAKE SHORE LIMITED runs between Pennsylvania Station, NY and Chicago Union Station, IL.

GE P42DC #64 engine between Albany, NY - Chicago, IL at Chicago Union Station

Route Map based on GPS record

GPS monitored Time - Speed / Altitude graph from Penn Station, NY (left) to Chicago Union Station, IL (right).
The maximum speed is 160km/h recorded about 2 hours after the departure between Poughkeepsie and Albany

Timetable

Viewliner's Sleeping Car

Roomette has double windows for one room

Each car has a sign board of the car number, e.g. #4911

Aisle is narrow

Daytime setting of Roomette

Steps for the upper bed

Wash basin

Toilet in the room

Dining Car

Kitchen

Menu

The dinner needs reservation, the conductor takes reservation in your room / sheet

Night setting of lower berth, the attendant makes up your berth during the dinner time

Upper berth

View from the upper berth

Steps for the upper berth

Complementary drink, coffee, orange juice, etc. on the aisle

A public shower space in the sleeping car,
water flow rate is very low, so you cannot shampoo

LAKE SHORE LIMITED from Penn station joins the same train from Boston at Albany-Rensselaer, NY

Good night...

Morning in the dining car

Arrival at Chicago Union Station

Coach car is round shape

Truck of Coach car

Baggage Car

Redcap

Head engine, GE P42DC #64, from Albany to Chicago

Amtrak California San Joaquin

SAN JOAQUIN runs between the San Francisco Bay Area and Bakersfield, CA.

 

SAN JOAQUIN is normally 5 or 6 cars, all coach cars including one dining car and optionally a baggage car.
 

SAN JOAQUIN has two routes, i.e. San Francisco - Bakersfield and Sacramento - Bakersfield.
The following map shows the first route.

Seven operations a day as of January 2014.

Southbound train runs in push pull mode. This is the cab car.

Baggage space on the 1st floor is full.

2nd floor is for general passengers. 1st floor is only for seniors or wheel chair access people.

 

A reclining seat lever.

A conductor pastes a tag above the seat with the destination code "MCD" meaning Merced.

 

 

A dining car is in the middle of the train.

A menu on the wall.

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Merced station.

The engine is EMD F59PHI with 3,000 hp.

 

Double deck called "California car" or "Surfliner", a variation of Amtrak's Superliner.

Each seat section is equipped with 120 volts AC.

The engine end.

The cab car end. A small red flag is set.

An engineer is sitting on the right hand side.

A view from the center window of the cab car.

 

Bakersfield is a final destination.

Time - Speed graph 1
San Francisco (0h00m) to Merced (3h20m)

Time  - Speed graph 2
Merced (0h00m) to Bakersfield (2h50m).