I’m back on the West Coast after traveling to and from my old prep school reunion in Connecticut on four Amtrak trains: the California Zephyr from Sacramento to Chicago and the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to Springfield, Massachusetts; and again on the Lake Shore back to Chicago, connecting with the Southwest Chief to Los…
OK … here are a few photos from the first part of this trip. The California Zephyr arriving in Sacramento. The first minor glitch was when sleeping car passengers were directed to wait where the front of the train would come to a stop. Ah, but it turned out that the two sleepers were all…
For any long-distance trip, especially for family vacations, there are many reasons for taking Amtrak instead of flying or driving. But certainly at or near the top of that list is the opportunity to see new and wondrous parts of this vast country of ours. There is just nothing comparable to the experience of relaxing…
Amtrak’s train # 3, the Southwest Chief, leaves Chicago’s Union Station daily in the mid-afternoon on its two-night journey to Los Angeles. These photos were taken during my early-October trip aboard this train. I boarded the train in Galesburg, Illinois, a town about 200 miles southwest of Chicago and just a few miles from where…