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On Jul 15, 10:29 pm, Trader Bob <books...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Jul 13, 12:28 pm, nold...@msn.com wrote:
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> > To answer my own question, and to help anyone who happens to stumble
> > across this thread (since I doubt that anyone is actually reading this
> > group): the secret is Sacramento.
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> > Turns out that veterans of the rails going to SF only book to
> > Sacramento, rent the car there since it's earlier in the day, and
> > drive into the city that way. A couple whom we talked to on the train
> > told us that they had been doing that for a few years and had no
> > problems. It actually gets you into the city much earlier than the
> > train.
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> > Though the ladies at Emeryville Avis were very helpful, patient and
> > pleasant, the difficulties encountered by a train that arrives an hour
> > and a half late and needs to board 15 minutes before the rental office
> > opens in the morning, make this option an extremely iffy and tense
> > proposition. If we go this route again we will get off in Sacramento
> > and we will do the drive. Even leaving SF by 6:00 am on the highway
> > gets us back in plenty of time to meet the train for the trip East.
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> What was the reason for them to make Emeryville the transfer point
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Emeryville station is closer to the Bay Bridge then Oakland station.
Amtrak Thruway buses will spend less time on the roads if they embark
from Emeryville.