A Visit to Monticello.

A Visit to Monticello.

There’s a lot to say for taking a couple of days out of already extended itinerary to stop off at Charlottesville, Virginia, just to spend a couple or three hours at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home.   This is beautiful country and today was an especially beautiful day: clear skies and bright sunshine with temperatures I…

Amtrak’s Cardinal: Three Times a Week Just Doesn’t Cut It.
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Amtrak’s Cardinal: Three Times a Week Just Doesn’t Cut It.

From time to time, I’ve complained here about the folly of operating trains on a less-than-daily schedule. Amtrak has two such trains in its long-distance system: the Sunset Limited running between New Orleans and Los Angeles, and the Cardinal, which takes a southerly route between Chicago and New York. Both trains run in each direction,…

Amtrak’s Cardinal Should Be A Daily Train.
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Amtrak’s Cardinal Should Be A Daily Train.

This is one of my favorite rides. The Cardinal runs between New York and Chicago, but it takes a meandering southern route that makes it, without doubt, one of the two or three more scenic Amtrak rides in the eastern part of the country.  After the westbound train leaves New York’s Penn Station, it heads…