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Fall Foliage through Domes

Stuck at barely sheltered stations in the rain, Getting the Wolverine up to Pontiac and Metra’s UP North and Northwest Lines plus the Kenosha Streetcar

Greetings from Highland Park where I am back for one final night! Yesterday was a day and through midnight adventure getting back to Chicago from Detroit. Awhile back I was doing research to see if I could get any additional Amtrak Stations by city bus from Detroit and discovered that SMART could take me all […]

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Fall Foliage through Domes

To Detroit and its People Mover by Metra’s UP North, the South Shore Line, and Amtrak’s Wolverine.

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 […]