Amtrak No. 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, stops to pick us up at Winslow, Ariz.
. . . all the livelong week. That's why I've been missing in action for so long. The Lady Friend and I took a brief trip aboard Amtrak's Southwest Chief to La Plata, Mo., and Winslow, Ariz., and the trip report for Trainweb is here.
Love the train stuff (as you know by now). Wish I could ride more often. Two months from today I'll be on the Crescent from B'ham. to DC going to the national Hearing Loss Assn. convention. Question for you: Why are so many train depots called "Union Station"? I have a couple ideas but they are probably wrong. (So far, still no rooms for my return; even the suites, etc., all are booked, and I booked my trip a couple months ago!)
ReplyDeleteI'm still working on reading your 5-parter on the train web ... it's slow going. The Times New Roman font is the WORST, even if you have good eyesight. I finally gave up and moved it to Word and Arial to read it! I'm enjoying every voyeuristic minute of your trip!
ReplyDeleteNetagene, Union Stations are called that whenever two or more railroads share a single depot. Even when only one railroad is left, the depot retains its old name.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That was ONE idea I had (a "union" of trains); the other idea was more far-fetched (that the Union Pacific had built/owned them). I'm not much of a shopper, but I love to wander around the station in Washington, DC! Don't remember much about the one in Chicago. Amtrak had to put a lot of riders up there Nov. 04 when the aux. locomotive on the EB lost power in Minot, ND. I enjoyed my almost 3 day stay in an old hotel on Michigan Ave. the week before Thanksgiving that time! Regrettably Birmingham has only the Crescent passing through, which I understand is the only "single level" because of a low tunnel just NE of here. It's better than NO passenger trains. Lucky for me, too, not seeing well, it's across the street from the city bus's Central Station.
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