After a long delay, a second daily Amtrak Cascades train, running between Portland and Vancouver, is coming into operation in August. This article appeared in the Vancouver Courier in October 2008
Amtrak's Coast Starlight Express is a full day from Vancouver when I turn in for the night. I watch the angular shadows of cranes and yard lights of Martinez, in the north of California's Bay Area, slip into the darkness behind us. Then I roll onto my bunk and fall sleep to the rhythmic rocking of the train.
