quote:Originally posted by Henry Kisor: I should have added that I was in wireless country about 3/4 of the way. Exceptions were in the canyons of Utah and Colorado and the Nowheresvilles Iowa and Illinois. Most sizable towns had wireless. Makes a good way to keep in touch with the world outside, and to consult Amtrak's site to see how far behind the train really was.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say "Consult Amtrak's site to see how far behind the train 'OFFICIALLY' was" as you already had 'boots on the track' so-to-speak.
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Well, on part of the return trip on No. 6 at least, "officially" and "actually" turned out to be one and the same. Every time we left a station, I'd call up the Amtrak website and see what time the train was expected to get into Chicago Union Station. On each occasion, the time shifted by minutes. Out of Naperville, the penultimate stop, the card read 3 hours 31 minutes late, and that was exactly the time No. 6 pulled onto Track 28 in CUS -- 7:36 p.m. by my watch.
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If that be the case, it would appear that you (and Mrs.?) did nothing other than ride "out and back".
But who am I to imply any kind of "judgement'; I likely would have done same; oh some forty years ago.
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I did ride out and back -- it was for a freelance writing assignment I'm not yet at liberty to discuss. But I had a grand old time both ways.
I'll confess that six straight days of rail travel (on top of seven days Toronto-Jasper-Vancouver and Seattle-Chicago just the week before) has me a tad pooped out at age 67. I couldn't sleep at home last night because my bed WASN'T jolting and rocking . . .
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