The Capitol Corridor is a 168-mile (270 km) passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two points most trains operate between, San Jose and Sacramento. The route runs roughly parallel to I-880 and I-80. Some limited trips run between Oakland and San Jose. A single daily round trip runs between San Jose and Auburn, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Capitol Corridor trains started in 1991.
A Capitol Corridor train in Fremont, California, in 2024
A Capitols train at Sacramento in 1995
Interior of the Capitol Corridor train
A typical Capitol Corridor train with a Charger locomotive, California Cars and a Superliner car.
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. Amtrak is a portmanteau of the words America and trak, the latter itself a sensational spelling of track.
The Southwest Chief, one of Amtrak's long-distance trains in the Western United States, in Laguna, New Mexico
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional in the 1960s
The North Coast Hiawatha near Yakima, Washington, in July 1971, an example of early Amtrak "rainbow" consists, made up of equipment still painted in the colors of various railroads
Classic Amtrak logo displayed at the Oakland – Jack London Square station, California
