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I can't say what's up with the hotel prices but the Loop is looking pretty normal these days, lots of people around, just about everything open except for places that have gone out of business.

Manny's is the only place. After that you have to go to Skokie.

Quartino I find the food to be just meh. And the atmosphere inside is really loud and annoying, it is really hard to have a conversation in that dining room, there is something about the design that all the noise just bounces off the walls and ceiling. I'd skip Nico and go half a block farther...

That's pretty progressive for Ducey. Good for him.

At least when the Chicago Transit Authority sends out a service disruption notice it will use the terminology. "due to police activity."

Great link, thanks! I'm always researching overseas trains.

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately we're going to Springfield, MA so no chance at that car.

I've been scrolling through the old posts in the thread looking for info about the VL2 sleepers on the LSL. So they are running on the New York section but not the Boston section? Do I have that right? I'm looking at a December trip so trying to find out.

What Amtrak used to run through the Horseshoe Curve with that many cars? Broadway Limited? I've only been around it on the Pennsylvanian and there are, what, six cars on that usually? Never get to have that experience of sitting on the last car and getting a great view of the front on a long train.

A friend of mine was on the IL Zephyr from Chicago to Macomb on Thursday and she told me they struck and killed a trespasser on the tracks. She didn't know where they were except to say that, timewise at least, they were about halfway to Macomb. They were on site for a while and pulled slowly in...

There is a system in place for non-EU citizens to apply for a health pass. There's a online application and you upload documents. I'm not positive what documentation one needs since our vaccine cards are not really hard to forge, but there is a system in place for tourists. And once you have...

It's my dream to live in Munich eventually, my favorite city.

Well this is AU, not AA. :D

I have such a soft spot for my old college station in Macomb, IL. Very much a classic Midwestern small town station. Built in 1913.

And maybe soulless is too harsh? Maybe just that it lacks character like an old station.

Not ugly necessarily, but definitely soulless is the new Joliet station. I get why they made the change from the beautiful historic Union Station (preserved as a wedding and event venue in the grand hall and a brewpub in the building) to a new facility on the east side of the tracks, so Rock...

I'm in Indy right now with my wife on her business trip. Went to check out the station because my wife will need to come here frequently for work and would take the bus or train. Good god, what awfulness. Even sadder when I went to get coffee at the Starbucks at the Omni and was looking right at...

D'oh! Of course I should have realized that from the train numbers. I've been on that train so many times... *facepalm*

I'm curious about the group's reasoning for the times of trains #29 and #30. I definitely see the need for a round trip beginning/ending in Cleveland but why do these serve Cleveland in the middle of the night as the end station? It's great that their plan calls for Cleveland to be served by...

Cool, thanks for pointing me in that direction. Interesting to see just form a few searches how many stations would be getting ticket agents back under this bill. My old college town of Macomb being one of them.