The better part of this day was taken up by travel from Toronto to New York City on Amtrak’s daily train, the Maple Leaf. Technically, it’s a VIA Rail train for the first couple of hours, the time it takes to travel from Toronto’s Union Station to the U.S.-Canadian border at Niagara Falls, New…
I’m going to be attending NARP’s annual April meeting in Washington, DC, and, as usual, I’ll be flying to the West Coast and taking the train from there. Hawaiian Airlines will get me from here to Seattle, then I’ll take Amtrak up to Vancouver, BC, the following morning. Next comes my eighth time aboard…
The Hotel Pennsylvania is directly across the street from Penn Station and I’ve stayed there several times in the past because of its location. Some of its 1700 rooms have been renovated, but if you don’t get one of those, you’ll end up in one like room 902: small, dingy, awful bed, an ancient TV…
My schedule today: leave Toronto on Train 97, the Maple Leaf, at 8:20 a.m; arrive Buffalo, NY (Depew Station) at 1:20 p.m.; depart Depew at midnight on the Lake Shore Limited for the overnight trip to Chicago. There are a couple of things worth mentioning from the first leg of that itinerary. For one,…