HOT: Travel from Chicago to Memphis on 24 July via Amtrak

[JonoBN41]

There seemed to me nothing more perfect in travel than boarding a train just at nightfall and shutting the bedroom door on an icy, riotous city and knowing the morning would show me a new latitude. I would leave anything behind, I thought, for a sleeper on a southbound express.

Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express, on leaving Chicago.

[docroc67]

Originally Posted by JonoBN41

There seemed to me nothing more perfect in travel than boarding a train just at nightfall and shutting the bedroom door on an icy, riotous city and knowing the morning would show me a new latitude. I would leave anything behind, I thought, for a sleeper on a southbound express.

Paul Theroux, The Old Patagonian Express, on leaving Chicago.

Jono,

Damn, what a literate reference.... Let's go, now!

Yours in ZAX,

Mike Raymond

[EM1843]

If only Amtrack would restart their service on the east side of New Orleans. They haven't resumed since Katrina.
I wonder how much it would cost me to fly to Chicago...

[dever860]

Originally Posted by EM1843

If only Amtrack would restart their service on the east side of New Orleans. They haven't resumed since Katrina.
I wonder how much it would cost me to fly to Chicago...

If only someone would add a passenger train station in Columbus... For all of the freight trains that wake me up at night around here, and I am in the city, it couldn't be all that hard to get some passenger trains going.