Season
Season 4 Episode
- Season 3 Boston
- Season 3 Boston to Concord, Massachusetts
- Season 3 Plymouth to Nantucket
- Season 3 Providence, Rhode Island, to New London, Connecticut
- Season 3 New Haven, Connecticut, to Mount Washington, New Hampshire
- Season 3 Burlington to Plattsburgh
- Season 3 Montreal, Quebec
- Season 3 Montreal to Ottawa
- Season 3 Thousand Islands to Oshawa, Ontario
- Season 3 Toronto
- Season 3 Reno, Nevada, to Colfax, California
- Season 3 Sacramento to Napa Valley
- Season 3 San Francisco to Sausalito, California
- Season 3 San Francisco
- Season 3 Berkeley to Yosemite
- Season 3 Santa Clara to Santa Cruz
- Season 3 Monterey to Santa Barbara
- Season 3 Los Angeles
- Season 3 Los Angeles to Laguna Beach
- Season 3 La Jolla to San Diego
Great American Railroad Journeys - Season 3 Episode 20 La Jolla to San Diego
8.50 29 minutes Michael Portillo is nearing the end of his thousand-mile rail journey from Reno, Nevada, to San Diego in southern California. In this final leg, clad in khaki boiler suit and sporting dark glasses, he joins the US Navy Pacific Fleet, birthplace of the elite flying academy Top Gun. Aboard the Pacific Surfliner, he arrives first in the coastal town of La Jolla, where he takes to the water in a kayak to explore the extraordinary 75-million-year-old caves.
In San Diego, he picks up the trail of the industrialist and property speculator John D Spreckels, who made the city boom in the 19th century and built a pavilion to house the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world. Michael is offered the chance to play it. Appleton's recommends a trip to a huge structure, completed in 1888, on which San Diegans have depended for water for 130 years - the
Sweetwater Dam.
