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I would love to take a train and make multiple overnight stops. The idea is that you get off the train; see things and stay overnight; catch the train the next day and move on.
Criteria:
No middle-of-the-night stops. Say 9AM to 8PM only.
Things to see must be within walking distance of hotel or convenient to public transportation to avoid renting a car. Places of interest don't have to be spectacular but there needs to be enough (in a single or multiple places) to keep us from being bored until the next train comes through. Smaller towns with a local museum or two and a walkable downtown would be ideal.
Station must be within walking distance of a decent hotel in a safe area or convenient to public transportation or hotel provides shuttle or short inexpensive taxi ride to hotel.
Since we would likely arrive before normal hotel check-in time or end up leaving after normal check-out, we'd need to leave bags at hotel until departure. Almost any place would allow it but this would preclude going from visiting a point of interest then going directly to train.
Most major cities are destinations i.e. you take the train to go there, not just stop over and move on. I am thinking more of the idea of taking the train out of Atlanta to NOL and stopping along the way or Chicago to anywhere and doing the same.
I've not been to many of the cities in the Midwest if that helps.
Criteria:
No middle-of-the-night stops. Say 9AM to 8PM only.
Things to see must be within walking distance of hotel or convenient to public transportation to avoid renting a car. Places of interest don't have to be spectacular but there needs to be enough (in a single or multiple places) to keep us from being bored until the next train comes through. Smaller towns with a local museum or two and a walkable downtown would be ideal.
Station must be within walking distance of a decent hotel in a safe area or convenient to public transportation or hotel provides shuttle or short inexpensive taxi ride to hotel.
Since we would likely arrive before normal hotel check-in time or end up leaving after normal check-out, we'd need to leave bags at hotel until departure. Almost any place would allow it but this would preclude going from visiting a point of interest then going directly to train.
Most major cities are destinations i.e. you take the train to go there, not just stop over and move on. I am thinking more of the idea of taking the train out of Atlanta to NOL and stopping along the way or Chicago to anywhere and doing the same.
I've not been to many of the cities in the Midwest if that helps.
) , train gets in at 10PM but plenty to do
