Take Amtrak's "California Zephyr" from Reno to Emeryville? I hope someone has lots and lots of spare time. First, you need to hope if the train will arrive more or less on time from Chicago, which clearly is a huge "IF".

And then, get this - it takes 9 and a half hours to run about 220 miles; and this is downhill nevertheless. I am not kidding. Amtrak #5 is scheduled to leave Reno at 9:39am, and arrive Emeryville at 5:09pm. That's like an average of 25MPH.