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Around the U.S. By Train – Part 9
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Around the U.S. By Train – Part 9

ByJim Loomis 07/30/200809/06/2014

The Metropolitan Lounge in Chicago’s Union Station is reserved for Amtrak’s sleeping car passengers and that’s where I’m waiting to board my connecting train to Seattle, the Empire Builder. That’s also where I get the bad news: There has been severe flooding along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and the Empire Builder is unable to…

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