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You can sleep and read a book during these 17 hours, though.
by thriftwy 3y ago
You can sleep and read a book during these 17 hours, though.
- benatkin 3y agoMain problem being it's an overnight trip, and you can't pick and choose your schedule. The comparison I really wanted to make was Chicago to NYC but I wanted to provide the best one for the train. Chicago to NYC is even less palatable. Want to split Chicago to NYC into two segments and stay the night in Buffalo? Too bad, only one train per day, you have to spend the night on the train, plus there's no view around what I think would be a scenic route from Chicago to Buffalo. https://neo-trans.blog/2022/08/05/campaign-arrives-to-expand-cleveland-amtrak-service/ https://neo-trans.blog/2022/08/05/campaign-arrives-to-expand...
- thriftwy 3y agoChicago to NYC is actually a bit out of reach for night trains (which you should absolutely take and absolutely sleep as a baby on your berth) being 1150 km as crow flies. There was a comfortably scheduled night Helsinki to Moscow train which covered 950km, made possible by the fact that Moscow-SPb rail line was built almost a straight line and also quite quick. The terrain between NYC and Chicago is rugged so no such path to be expected. Maybe the Chinese would be able to build a 1000 km elevated track between those two cities and make it all work, though they will prefer to make it an 5h daytime ride and not a nighttrain...
- benatkin 3y agoI don't want a night train, I want a day train. The train isn't too rugged for them to run 3 trains per day instead of 1, running at different times, so you can choose the time you leave a given station.