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http://www.iowadot.gov/amtrakstudy/Iowa%20Feasibility%20Study%20Amtrak%20PowerPoint.pdf
Scroll down to the end of the document to find the schedule.
I'm disappointed in the times. I'm interested in taking the train to Moline and would be coming in on the City of New Orleans which arrives in Chicago at 9 am. Thirty minutes isn't much of a window to catch the connection. And waiting around until 6:30 to catch the evening train isn't an attractive option at all. The return trip is worse. The morning train would arrive in Chicago at noon, which means I'd have an 8-hour layover. Ugh. The evening train wouldn't arrive until 10 pm, two hours after the City of New Orleans departs Chicago. I'm hoping there will be some adjustments to this schedule before the trains are projected to start running in 2015. It wouldn't be a whole lot of good to me the way it is currently proposed. 8(
If so, I will have to continue catching the California Zephyr to Burlington, which is about an hour-and-a-half away from my final destination of Muscatine. Whereas Moline is just 30 minutes.
Scroll down to the end of the document to find the schedule.
I'm disappointed in the times. I'm interested in taking the train to Moline and would be coming in on the City of New Orleans which arrives in Chicago at 9 am. Thirty minutes isn't much of a window to catch the connection. And waiting around until 6:30 to catch the evening train isn't an attractive option at all. The return trip is worse. The morning train would arrive in Chicago at noon, which means I'd have an 8-hour layover. Ugh. The evening train wouldn't arrive until 10 pm, two hours after the City of New Orleans departs Chicago. I'm hoping there will be some adjustments to this schedule before the trains are projected to start running in 2015. It wouldn't be a whole lot of good to me the way it is currently proposed. 8(
If so, I will have to continue catching the California Zephyr to Burlington, which is about an hour-and-a-half away from my final destination of Muscatine. Whereas Moline is just 30 minutes.