Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach

Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach
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An Amtrak California Express Thruway Motorcoach in Sacramento

This Amtrak California Thruway Motorcoach is used to transport passengers from San Joaquin trains in Merced, California, to Los Banos, Hollister, San Juan Bautista, Salinas, and the Monterey Bay Peninsula.

Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, through-ticketed local bus routes and taxi services to connect Amtrak train stations to areas not served by its railroads. Train and Thruway Motorcoach tickets are purchased together from Amtrak for the length of a passenger's journey, and the connections are timed for convenient transfers between the two services. In addition to providing connecting service to unserved areas, some Thruway Motorcoaches operate as redundant service along well-established passenger rail corridors to add extra capacity.

By California law, passengers may only travel on Amtrak's network of Thruway Motorcoaches in California when connecting to or from an Amtrak train.^[1]

California has the most extensive network of Thruway Motorcoaches in the nation.^{citation needed}

Amtrak uses thruway motorcoaches when normal rail service encounters disruptions.^[2]

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1 Thruway Motorcoach routes
2 References

Thruway Motorcoach routes

Schematic map of Amtrak routes

Northeast

Philadelphia to Atlantic City (through-ticketed NJ TRANSIT Atlantic City Line rail route)
Newport News to Virginia Beach
New York to LaGuardia Airport/JFK Airport (through-ticketed New York Airport Service route)
Portland, ME to Bangor (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)
Boston to Newburyport/Portsmouth (through-ticketed C&J Trailways route)
New London to Foxwoods Casino (through-ticketed SEAT route)
Boston to Manchester/Concord/Berlin, NH (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)
Boston to Manchester/Concord/Littleton, NH (through-ticketed Concord Trailways route)
Wilmington to Dover/Salisbury (through-ticketed Carolina Trailways route)
Washington to Charlottesville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Buffalo to Jamestown (through-ticketed Coach USA route)
Westport to Lake Placid

East

Jacksonville to Lakeland via Ocala
DeLand to Daytona Beach (thruway service is a taxicab provided by Southern Komfort)
Orlando/Tampa to St. Petersburg/Fort Myers
High Point to Winston-Salem (through-ticketed Winston-Salem Connector route)
Charlottesville to Richmond
Chicago/Indianapolis to Louisville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Toledo to East Lansing via Detroit, Ann Arbor

Midwest

Carbondale to St. Louis
New Orleans to Baton Rouge
Battle Creek to Flint (through-ticketed Indian Trails route)
Kalamazoo to St. Ignace (through-ticketed Indian Trails route)
Indianapolis to Galesburg/Davenport (through-ticketed Burlington Trailways route)
Kansas City to Oklahoma City via Tulsa (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)
Milwaukee to Oshkosh/Wausau (through-ticketed Lamers Bus Lines route)
Milwaukee to Houghton
Chicago to Rockford/Madison (through-ticketed Coach USA route)
St.Paul-Minneapolis to Duluth (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)

West

Seattle to Vancouver, BC (through-ticketed Western Trailways Route route)
Salt Lake City to Boise (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Salt Lake City to Las Vegas (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Galesburg to Springfield
Denver to Colorado Springs/Pueblo (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Denver to Glenwood Springs (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Williams Junction to Williams (Grand Canyon Railroad connection)
Flagstaff to Grand Canyon (through-ticketed Open Road Tours route)
Flagstaff to Phoenix (through-ticketed Open Road Tours or Greyhound route)
Flagstaff to Sedona (through-ticketed Open Road Tours route)
Raton to Denver (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Kingman to Las Vegas
Albuquerque to El Paso (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Lamy to Santa Fe
Los Angeles to Las Vegas (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Longview to Shreveport
Longview to Houston/Galveston
San Antonio to Laredo (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
San Antonio to Harlingen/Brownsville (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Temple to Kileen/Fort Hood
Oklahoma City to Kansas City via Tulsa (through-ticketed Jefferson Lines route)
Houston to Galveston (through-ticketed Kerrville Bus route)

Pacific Northwest

Seattle to Bellingham and Vancouver, BC
Seattle to Vancouver Island/Victoria, BC (through-ticketed Victoria Clipper ferry route)
Portland to Eugene-Springfield
Spokane to Boise (through-ticketed Northwestern Trailways route)
Seattle to Wenatchee/Spokane (through-ticketed Northwestern Trailways route)
Portland to Pendleton/Boise (through-ticketed Greyhound route)
Portland to Astoria
Portland/Albany to Corvallis/Newport
Chemult to Bend/Redomd
Ontario to Eugene/Coos Bay (through-ticketed Porter Stage route)
Klamath Falls to Ashland

California

1A: Bakersfield to Los Angeles/Santa Ana/San Diego
1B: Bakersfield to Long Beach/San Pedro
1C: Bakersfield to Simi Valley
3: Sacramento/Stockton to Marysville/Oroville/Chico/Corning/Red Bluff/Redding/Medford
6: Stockton to Dublin/San Jose
7: Martinez to Vallejo/Napa/Santa Rosa/Ukiah/Willits/Eureka/Arcata/McKinleyville
9: Bakersfield to Barstow/Las Vegas
10: Bakersfield to Santa Barbara
12: Bakersfield to Victorville
15: Merced to Mariposa/Yosemite
18A: Hanford to Santa Maria
18B: Hanford to Visalia
19: Bakersfield to San Bernardino/Hemet/Palm Springs/Indio
20: Sacramento to Roseville/Rocklin/Auburn/Colfax/Soda Springs/Truckee/Reno/Sparks
20c: Sacramento to Placerville/South Lake Tahoe
21: San Jose to Paso Robles/San Luis Obispo/Santa Maria/Santa Barbara
23: Sacramento to South Lake Tahoe (Carson City service stopped 2006-11-30)
34: San Francisco to Stockton
35: Santa Cruz to San Jose (connects with 6)
37: Merced to Monterey (Route discontinued effective 2008-05-05)
99: Emeryville to San Francisco

Substitution for Amtrak trains

Thruway Motorcoaches are also substituted in place of an Amtrak California train on the following unnumbered segments:

Oakland - San Jose
Van Nuys, Los Angeles to central Los Angeles (one southbound trip)
central Los Angeles to Santa Barbara
Klamath Falls to Pasco (northbound/eastbound only, instead of train connection between #14 and #28)

Thruway Motorcoaches are can also be used as an alternative to the Amtrak Downeaster on the following segments:

Boston (North Station) to Dover, Exeter, or Durham/UNH - one northbound (Bus 8619) and one southbound (Bus 8618) (C&J bus)- This segment can be reserved through Amtrak ticketing systems
Boston (South Station) to Portland, ME - Portland/Boston Flexpass is valid on Concord Coach or Downeaster runs between Portland and Boston -no reservations required- (The Downeaster serves Boston-North Station, while Concord Coach serves Boston-South Station)