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So after a nice restful night in Chicago, it was time to go off on the train again. But before I ventured off to the station, I decided to go to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry to see the original Burlington Zephyr. Getting down to the museum was easy as the bus stopped just outside...

Well hopefully, this will be the first part of a two page trip report (the other the CZ). I have always wanted to travel across the USA by train. This desire was brought on my a) flying over from Boston to LA and seeing the country and wanting to see more, b) love of trains since boyhood and...

I'm booked for next Wednesday and the line through Montgomery is still closed but some good news is that it should "be open for business and commerce by the end of the weekend". In the UK, that would be followed by a several month long assessment of the line for health and safety before running...

After reading one of the discussions yesterday about " low buckets becoming available". I thought I would look at my trip and see if anything cheaper was available. They weren't. But what mystified me was that on the Cardinal, a Bedroom was showing at $589 and a Roomette at $600. I understand...

I'm about to take my first Amtrak trip for some 25 years, so my memories of that (Boston, New York, Chicago, St. Louis) are a bit distant. I am from London and newly retired am doing some of the things on my bucket list. So anyway, in early March, I am taking the Cardinal from Washington to...