The Coast Starlight is a passenger train operated by Amtrak on the West Coast of the United States. It runs 1,377 miles (2,216 km) from King Street Station in Seattle, Washington, to Union Station in Los Angeles, California. The train's name was formed as a merging of two of Southern Pacific's train names, the Coast Daylight and the Starlight. These were two of SP's numerous Coast Line trains.
Major station stops along the route between Seattle and Los Angeles are; Portland and Eugene, Oregon, and Sacramento, Emeryville (for San Francisco), Oakland, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, California, and Santa Barbara, California.
During fiscal year 2011, the Coast Starlight carried over 425,000 passengers, a decrease of 4% from FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $39,997,952 during FY2011, a 6.9% increase from FY2010.