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Amtrak Transit Adventures

The Rebuilt Milwaukee Station Platform Area – Getting their via the South Shore Line to the Hiawatha

This past week I spent at a training for work in Milwaukee with a colleague. At my job the assumption is that we’d drive to the training but my boss was willing to let us take the train when I showed him that with the Indiana and Chicago area Toll Road Tolls and and parking […]

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Finishing CA to an AGR Roomette

TSA on the Hiawatha Line from Milwaukee Airport down to Chicago via Strutevant. Finishing the Blue Line in Chicago and an Evening Purple Line Express trip to Finish It

I have one major goal for the website during my evening visiting old family friends in Milwaukee. The goal is to visit the Milwaukee Airport. Had the Empire Builder been less than an hour late yesterday my plan was to buy a $7.50 for an extra 100 AGR points and the ten minute ride to […]

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Fall Foliage through Domes

The Quiet Hiawatha to Milwaukee and Getting Lots of Metra in Northern Chicago.

Hello from Milwaukee where I am visiting more friends! The final stop of my now over a month long journey before I take the Dome Car Cardinal back to New York this Saturday night. I arrived on the 5:08pm Hiawatha #339 yesterday on by far Amtrak’s shortest corridor service up from Union Station going only […]