Our meeting was held in the Millennium Knickerbocker hotel in Chicago. It’s an old hotel but, by and large, it and its facilities served us well. Our banquet on the...

The Mississippi River cruise now over, I’m returning home on a round-about route and, of course, by train. The first leg is the City of New Orleans back to Chicago....

ABOARD THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED–I suppose it’s the nature of the beast, but less than ten hours into my ride to Chicago, there are already some negatives to report. I...

It seems as though I’m always passing through Chicago. That’s not a bad thing, of course. I really like Chicago and it’s a chance to visit old and very good...

Well, this was a first for me: sitting in my hotel room here in Chicago while a thunder storm occurs overhead. Believe me, it’s a singular experience. The claps of...

  Chicago has always been a railroad town with, as far as I know, more rail activity than any other U.S. city. For decades, passenger trains left Chicago and headed...

One of the giants in retailing—it may have been F. W. Woolworth himself—once said, “I know I’m wasting half of my advertising dollars. The trouble is, I don’t know which...

CHICAGO–The ride here from Boston on the Lake Shore Limited was really enjoyable. For one thing, the train passes through countryside that starts all my old New England genes clanging...

It keeps on happening. People drive around the gates, past the flashing lights and clanging bells, and into the path of a locomotive.   The most recent incident was Friday...

The next leg of my trip, from Chicago to New Orleans, is in one of three vintage rail cars operated by Pullman Rail Journeys. Two sleepers and a dining car/dome...