No lockers.I'll be changing trains in Sacramento with a ten-hour layover. Are there lockers in the station? Or if not, is there a way to check baggage in the station just for the day?
One thing about checking your carry-on luggage at the baggage department at SAC. I have done that before, but don't cut your retrieval time too short. There can be lines at times.No lockers.I'll be changing trains in Sacramento with a ten-hour layover. Are there lockers in the station? Or if not, is there a way to check baggage in the station just for the day?
But they will hold your bags. They usually charge $3 per piece. One way to cut down this cost is pack items you don't need enroute and check the bags in. For those they hold for you, I let them keep them until about 15 min. before departure to avoid weighing me down keeping an eye on them.
Some day Amtrak will have a consistent policy for sleeper pax system-wide. Hold for free in some cities - gouge in others as in SAC.
One thing about checking your carry-on luggage at the baggage department at SAC. I have done that before, but don't cut your retrieval time too short. There can be lines at times.No lockers.I'll be changing trains in Sacramento with a ten-hour layover. Are there lockers in the station? Or if not, is there a way to check baggage in the station just for the day?
But they will hold your bags. They usually charge $3 per piece. One way to cut down this cost is pack items you don't need enroute and check the bags in. For those they hold for you, I let them keep them until about 15 min. before departure to avoid weighing me down keeping an eye on them.
Some day Amtrak will have a consistent policy for sleeper pax system-wide. Hold for free in some cities - gouge in others as in SAC.
Probably the eastbound CZ to the northbound CS.10 hours at Sacramento?? What trains are these between? I'm guessing westbound CZ to northbound CS...other than that, all the connections are MUCH closer!
Sacramento is still the only "guaranteed" connection point, though. The only way you can have a different connection point, such as EMY, would be to do multi-city. A few years ago, EMY was a guaranteed connection, but not any more.Agree this is likely a westbound Zephyr to northbound Starlight connection. The northbound Starlight hits all the stops the eastbound Zephyr does from its origin in Emeryville to Sacramento, so there's little reason to make that transfer unless you wanted to spend the day and evening in Sacramento...
...which, as I think about it, actually isn't too crazy of an idea! Spend the afternoon at the California State RR Museum and Old Town Sacramento... dinner downtown or on the Delta King... maybe a River Cats game in the evening before returning to the station. It would be nice if the Starlight arrived a little sooner than midnight, but there should be plenty of people waiting for the train (or walking back from the baseball game) to keep you company.
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