Amtrak Cascades or Coast Starlight
The two routes share 10 stations, Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia-Lacey among them. The table lists what each shows and how long each takes; the route pages carry the full stretch tables.
Side by side
| Amtrak Cascades | Coast Starlight | |
|---|---|---|
| Endpoints | Seattle to Eugene | Seattle to Los Angeles |
| Duration, end to end | 6 h 38 m | 35 h 16 m |
| Frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Trains | 503 southbound, 504 northbound | 11 southbound, 14 northbound |
| Named stretches with a cited source | 7 | 10 |
| Shows | Mountains, Big rivers, Pacific coast, Big cities, Wine country | Mountains, Pacific coast, Big rivers, Wine country, Big cities |
| Headline stretch | Commencement Bay and the Nisqually River | Cascade crossing |
| Headline stretch in daylight | southbound: daylight Feb to Nov; dawn Dec to Jan, 8:15 a.m.; northbound: daylight, 12:54 p.m. | southbound: daylight Mar to Sep; dusk Oct; dark Nov to Feb, 6:44 p.m.; northbound: daylight, 10:44 a.m. |
Duration, frequency, and daylight are computed from the Amtrak GTFS timetable (fetched 2026-10-15) for the representative trip in each direction; daylight is the phrase for the headline stretch, the highlighted row of each route page. Named stretches are counted from the cited route guides. How these are computed.