Dreamstar Lines’s route will begin summer 2025 if all goes according to plan.
For decades, travelers have been praying for a more pleasant way to get from LA to San Francisco. Hope once lay in the California High-Speed Rail project, authorized in 2008, which still maintains its promise to get people from place to place in under three hours. But as of 2024, that project only just completed its first phase of construction and won’t be finished until 2030 at the earliest.
The dream isn’t dead yet, though. Newport Beach-based startup Dreamstar Lines plans to develop an overnight train service between LA and SF. The new service would be a game changer for travelers, with luxury lodgings like first-class suites with private bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as standard cars (with bedrooms), lounges, and bars. Instead of losing an entire day to traffic on the highway or schlepping all the way to and from the airport for a mere one hour flight, Dreamstar Lines’s innovation could make the laborious journey not only easy but enjoyable.
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