I booked (expensive) plane tickets on United’s non-stop service to Bangor, Maine a couple of months ago for Louise and I to go to family wedding (and to eat lobsters) on August 31. A few weeks before I was reading up on Chicago ‘L’ happenings and discovered we’d be transiting in downtown Chicago from the […]
Tag: South Shore Line
Happy Holidays everyone! I actually stayed in South Bend with my Louise instead of traveling back to New York City.I’ve finally found time for another website update, this one about an adventure to Michigan City to spend the evening rush hour as the sunset photographing South Shore Line trains running down the middle of the […]
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 […]
On Friday, I found myself with a half-day off I have to take off, and yet again no real weekend plans in my new home of South Bend. I leave the house in the morning bicycling to work (normally I walk the half-hour, biking takes ten minutes, so I could get to the South Shore […]
This trip was taken on June 11, 2016 Last Saturday, not quite feeling a trip into Chicago yet, considering the South Shore Line is having an embargo on brining bicycles onboard due to the Chicago Blues Festival, I decided to go for an afternoon adventure to the Indiana Dunes for a walk and a swim […]
Hello from Detroit and the new Hostel Detroit that is a nice small youth hostel! I arrived in the city yesterday evening on a real railroad adventure. It started off on the Metra Union Pacific North Line (an unusual left-handed railroad) down to the Ogilvie Transportation Center at 9:03am on the one departure that originates […]