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Here's a question for you Southern California folks, or any Marines that might visit this forum.
Is there any practical way to take Amtrak (Surfliner), and then some other form of transportation to get to Miramar?
I have an opportunity for a tour there in March, but I don't really want to drive all the way down there from North Orange County.
And I have to post a trip report about my recent journey on the Sunset Limited, so stay tuned for that one.
Southwest Chief Member # 1227
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Got an update for you.
The group tour is offering two bus pickup locations. One being Old Town.
So pretty simple now. Take Amtrak down to the San Diego depot. Hop on a trolley back up to old town and meet the bus.
The bus leaves around 11:00 AM on March 12. So looks like Surfliner 564 will work. Just hope it's 10:10 arrival time is pretty good. The best trolley option is a 10:28 getting to old town around 10:40. So a little tight yes, but hopefully doable.
Too bad no Surfliners stop at old town on the 12th. Metrolink-Coaster is an option but I'd rather take Amtrak all the way.
smitty195 Member # 5102
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Isn't Miramar the location where they went for training in "Top Gun"?
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The trolley is depenable so you would have little trouble reaching Old Town. Take the underpass at the south end under the tracks to were the buses board.
Chris
smitty195 Member # 5102
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Now I've got the "need for speed" again...just put Top Gun into my Netflix queue.
Ocala Mike Member # 4657
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One of the few movies that both the wife and I enjoy watching together, and one of the few movies where an airplane upstages the actors. Check this out:
quote:Originally posted by smitty195: Isn't Miramar the location where they went for training in "Top Gun"?
There's also a barbeque joint about a half mile walk south of the SAN station where some scenes from the movie were filmed. They had some signed pics and stuff, but lost a lot of it in a catastrophic fire. But they're back in biz now, still called Kansas City Barbeque. Just walk along the trolley tracks south if you're doing a Top Gun pilgrimage tour...or just want to eat there.
*Meant to say- walk along the road parallelling the trolley trax south- wouldn't want anyone here actually walking on the ROW...(-:
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