Caltrain: San Francisco to Stanford?

 Last time I looked they had a shuttle from the airport to the nearby Caltrain station and Stanford ran their own shuttle from the Palo Alto station to campus.look for Margarite shuttle or something like that....DaveB 

BART to Millbrae, Caltrain to Palo Alto

Then take the Marguerite shuttle, depending where on campus you're headed!

Note:  the SFO-Millbrae connection is only direct evenings and weekends.  During regular hours you have to transfer via San Bruno.  Not very convenient!

DaveB and ProfessorChaos,

Thanks so much for supplying the missing conection and also the extra detail about the SFO-Millbrae connection. One day of travel will be a weekend, the other a weekday, and I assumed some sort of reduced/alternate service but that little jog does look a bit inconvenient.

The Stanford shuttle map is excellent.

Thanks again!

Tomlinson Run Railroad

I'm back from sunny California. Sadly my seminar logistics meant that I couldn't take the train and be where I needed to be in a timely manner in spite of your helpful tips. 

The airport shuttle driver did however cross the Caltrain tracks twice without bothering to stop let alone slow down (I hope that's not normal), and I got to see two old hoppers on a siding when we picked up another passenger. But the closest I got to a train was looking up through ceiling-level windows from the SFO international food court to see the airport train on the level above me.  It looked really cool from that angle but would have been much more fun to have ridden on it before my flight.

TRRR