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<\/a>\nOur train was on time. We were in business class on this train. It was about a five hour trip to Chicago. <\/p>\n
We arrived into Chicago Union Station and went to leave our bags in the Metropolitan Lounge. Then we walked down the street to Lou Mitchell’s for lunch. <\/p>\n
We just hung out and relaxed and let Amtrak do the driving. We eventually went to dinner and all had steak and shrimp.<\/p>\n We had an extended stop in St Louis. <\/p>\n ?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day started early. We left our final hotel at 6:15am and walked a couple of hundred yards to the train station next door. It was raining, but fortunately no heavily. Michael at the Dearborn Station. Our train was on time. We were in business class on this train. It was about a five hour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-michigan-canada"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craigmashburn.com\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nOur next train, the Texas Eagle, boarded and left right on time at 1:45. As usual, we are in sleeper. We have two small roomettes. <\/p>\n<\/a>
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\nAfter that stop, I made everyone’s bed and time to get some sleep to the sways of the train. <\/p>\n