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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Amtrak207: [QB] I still want 500 bonus points for the longest typed Railforum post ever. P. S. I'm not the same person as Amtrak288. He named it after the train, I named it after the engine. Scenery? My friend and I have an ongoing competition when we take a train somewhere. He counts the number of self-storage places and I count junkyards. It's always a battle! As far as scenery goes on the LSL, you will begin going through South Chicago and the South Bend area which is full of industry and steel mills which don't smell very good. Next you move into the gently rolling farmland of northern Indiana (sometimes quite flat for the east) and you stay that way through Ohio, which will be after dark. Around sunrise, you'll probably be between Erie, Pennsylvania and buf-lo where the rail lines run near the shore of Lake Erie for a long stretch. I try to watch toward the lake shore as much as I watch inland. Next you go through the beautiful sections of south buf-lo, stop at Depew, and move on through upstate New York. Buffalo to Rochester is almost entirely farmland (beautiful Byron-Bergen, NY) but it's a nice change. After Rochester you follow the Erie Canal (and cross it a half a dozen times) from milepost 359 all the way to Syracuse. They do not take similar routes here because the canal can turn a lot easier, so sometimes it's right out the window and other times it's miles away. After Syracuse you head to Utica (I never remember this part) and after Utica you begin to skirt the Mohawk River valley all the way to Albany. There you cross the Hudson River and move on to either New York or Boston. If you want, I can scan and send you a copy of Amtrak's old route guide for the Lakeshore and Southwest Chief. These are sorely-missed budget-restricted items last seen sometime in the early '90s. They provide a basic history and geographical narrative of the route followed by the trains. There, it's shorter this time. I like your user name. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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