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Looks pretty Great to me here... and we're not even to Lake Pepin yet at this spot:

Well, the Great River Road is a nationally signed route that runs alongside its entire length, and south of Prescott, WI, on both banks of the river.

Do we have a list anywhere of all the upcoming new Amtrak routes and the dates they are currently slated to start running? (As of Jan. 2024) For example, I know they want to reestablish a route from the Twin Cities to Duluth, and add an additional train running from MSP to Chicago along the...

Yes, I'd vote for La Crosse too. In addition to what you said, boarding there would also give you 2+ hours of train travel on one of the most scenic sections of the route where you're running alongside the Mississippi River and the bluffs either side of it. Just try to get a seat or room on...

Have a look at Red Wing, MN for your boarding point. That's the last station it stops at before St. Paul. They have long-term parking available in the basement of the parking garage for the nearby St. James hotel, and when I last used it, it was free for my entire trip. Mind you, that was 9...

I did this trip once eight years ago, and mine was too. I had boarded just one stop before in Red Wing (where the parking is much cheaper).

If someone turns up at a land border for a short trip and is told to do the random arrival testing, can you instead turn around and go back home right away instead of taking that test, or are you committed at that point? Obviously this would be tougher on a train, but what if you're trying to...

You can see some recent trips on the Empire Builder from one end to the other on the YouTube channel "Grounded Life Travel."

It’s been in the Constitution since the beginning. I first learned about this bit in fourth grade.

The pocket veto only occurs if Congress is out of session when the ten days is up. This happened much more often back in history when Congress was out of session much more often than it is today. Nowadays it’s in session almost all the time, even if it’s not really doing anything…they keep...

Any bill that passes both houses of Congress automatically becomes law ten days after passage even without the President‘s signature, unless Congress is out of session when the tenth day comes up, which it isn’t going to be. Even if they want to sit on it in this way for symbolic purposes, and...

Eh? You test positive, you have to stay where you are. You can’t switch hotels, or else it’s not a quarantine, is it?

And what if that hotel is booked up already for the dates of that quarantine period? You‘d have to make a two-week reservation with them in advance.

And also, as of now, Americans (or any non-Canadians really) entering Canada also have to give an address of somewhere in Canada where they will quarantine for 14 days should they come down with Covid during their visit. How does a short-tripper without family there do that without lying?

I was riding the Southwest Chief westbound to Los Angeles, sitting in coach, and when we got to Albuquerque it really filled up with air passengers trying to get to LA. One of them told me their flights had been cancelled due to very high winds there grounding the planes from takeoff. (This...

They said they have forward-facing cameras on the cars not only on this train, but also on the last freight train that went through this same area 80 minutes earlier. Between all that footage, the black box, and the positions of the cars and tracks immediately afterwards, they should have a...

In the last few months, Union Pacific has been talking with the Western Wisconsin Rail Coalition about bringing back a privately-run passenger rail service to the area, to connect St. Paul, Minnesota with Eau Claire, Wisconsin and several points in between...

Nicollet Mall officially reopened about 3 hours ago as I type this, and the Mary Richards statue was put back where she belongs a couple of days ago.

They better make it multiple choice and not fill-in-the-blank, or they'll end up with Trainy McTrainFace. :)

That can actually be the peak time for fall colors along the Mississippi River. The issue is whether we get heavy rain or wind after they've turned that blows them all off too soon. No way to predict that this far out.