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[lollardfish]

Although I had my doubts, it turns out that on the train you CAN get up and walk around.

And they have big seats.

And food at a reasonable price (compared to airlines).

AND POWER OUTLETS!

And it costs $43 round trip from Chicago to Kalamazoo, which is approximately $300 less than flying, and about 40$ less than driving.

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Of course, you have passenger train service available, which many people don't. Oh, and don't even think about trying to go to Canada that way. We looked into it as a possibility for Conadian (the idea was to drive to Chicago, hook up with Kathy and some other folks, and take the train from there), and discovered that the only way to get from Chicago to Winnipeg was to go thru Toronto!

Nonetheless, the rising cost of fuel is going to make a serious dent in my previous main reason for not liking trains -- that they cost as much as plane fare, but you don't get there any faster than driving. This is changing, as your figures illustrate.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Right! And my friends who have tried to take the train from Mpls to Chicago or Detroit have generally been disappointed in both speed and reliability. Canada is a disaster now with the border crossing, too, I hear.

But yesterday was good.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I might regard it as more accurate to state that we've been disappointed because too often our train ride turns into a bus ride. To be fair, one of the times the train ride turned into a bus ride was because the floods in southern Minnesota washed out the tracks.