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Yep, we leave on the Meteor tomorrow PM, and will connect to the Cardinal in Washington DC on Wednesday, then we arrive in Crawfordsville, IN Thursday AM (1 1/2 hours before the rental car place opens -- ) so I am hoping that the Cardinal will be late, but it hasn't been lately. We'll be at my 40th college reunion at DePauw in Greencastle (30 miles south of Crawfordsville) for the weekend, then we'll drive to Chicago in the rental car and visit an old friend of my wife's on the way. We then have 3 or 4 days in Chicago to visit family and drive around, then we will probably turn the rental car in at Libertyville or Mundelein, ride Metra to CUS on Wednesday AM, do some sighsteeing (museum, maybe), then board the Capitol next Wednesday (6/16) to come home via Washington DC, where we again connect to the Meteor.
I'll be away from the forum for about 10 days, and I WILL post a trip report on my web site when we return.
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Looking forward to your report - look out for the orange traffic cones on the platform at WPK!
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Have a wonderful trip, RRRich . . . and good luck with the Cardinal! I hav enot heard such good things lately, but maybe it will be new and improved. . . .
If you have never seen the Chicago Cultural Center (former library) opposite Millennium Park, I strongly recommend it, and I think Mr Norman concurs. Be sure to go to the third floor and see the stained glass ceiling. This was in a scene from Untouchables, btw. On Wedenesday, tehre is great music, free I believe; they start rehearsing maybe 11 and others keep joining the group; full performance is at 1 I think?
I also strongly recommend the archiecture tour by boat, given my the Chicago Architecture organization in the Santa Fe Buildingon Michigan, cattycorner from the Art Institute. The boat ride itself leaves from below street level on Michigan and Wacker (the corner where the Wrigley building is, but cattycorner I think). This Michigan Ave bridge viewing lower Michigan was also in the Untouchables.
The Art Institute is free on Tuesdays.
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WE'RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!! Had a good trip, and a good college reunion, plus we spent some time in Chicago visiting family and friends. The trains were reasonably close to schedule (N-bd Meteor arrived early into WAS, Cardinal was only 1 hr late into CRF, eastbound Capitol was on time all the way to HFY, then we ended up following a freight train into Washington, so were an hour late, then the S-bd Meteor was early into WPK). Crews were varied -- diner crews on the N-bd Meteor and W-bound Cardinal were lousy; but crews on the Capitol and S-bd Meteor were much better. I will be publishing a trip report on my web site soon -- I'll let everyone know when it is posted (it may be a couple weeks).
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) so I am hoping that the Cardinal will be late, but it hasn't been lately. We'll be at my 40th college reunion at DePauw in Greencastle (30 miles south of Crawfordsville) for the weekend, then we'll drive to Chicago in the rental car and visit an old friend of my wife's on the way. We then have 3 or 4 days in Chicago to visit family and drive around, then we will probably turn the rental car in at Libertyville or Mundelein, ride Metra to CUS on Wednesday AM, do some sighsteeing (museum, maybe), then board the Capitol next Wednesday (6/16) to come home via Washington DC, where we again connect to the Meteor.
