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Amtrak Southwest Chief Trip LAX – CHI and back again

Took Amtrak’s Southwest Chief (and the Hiawatha) to visit family in Milwaukee. Some pictures of the journey and my relatives for your viewing pleasure!

Mixed feelings about the trip – was great to celebrate the 4th and see my siblings and their families, also to partake in the summer celebrations in Milwaukee, the main reason I made this particular trip was to join them in burying our parents’ ashes at a cemetery just north of Milwaukee in Belgium, Wisconsin. So, something that needed to be done and a sense of finality with that. I think they would have liked the place we chose (my dad chose the cemetery after my mom died, but not the particular plot, that was left to us) and I think it’s a beautiful and peaceful spot.

Oh Amtrak! Unfortunately the trip home was delayed 16.5 hours because of a locomotive breakdown and then subsequent delays along the entire route. I did complain; I got a voucher to use on a future train trip (like that will be something I’ll do soon – not) but really coincidentally there’s this great story by Justin Fox in Bloomberg which I’ll link to which provides the context much better than I can. I really do enjoy the pace of train travel (it’s not only the Amish!) so I hope they can get their act together before it all goes down the tubes. I’d be very wary of taking one of these long hauls again (anything with a two night overnight, as all trains from the west coast to Chicago or New Orleans seem to be). Anyway, it’s good to be home!

  • Waiting Room at Union Station, Los Angeles. (Building from 1939)

  • Barstow Station
  • in the desert. . .
  • Gallup, NM, station
  • Albuquerque Station
  • At Albuquerque Station
  • La Junta, CO
  • Rainbows, and it’s not even Pride month
  • Lawrence, KS
  • About to cross Mississippi from Iowa to Illinois
  • Mississippi River at Fort Madison, Iowa
  • Somewhere in Illinois
  • The view from bro’s porch.
  • 4th of July, Cedarburg
  • Before the soiree
  • Blogger, before soiree
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • Summerfest, MKE
  • We buried our parents’ ashes.
  • Sister Kate and niece Emily!
  • Nephew Steve, Sister-in-law Laura and my brother Dick
  • waiting for Southwest Chief at Chicago Union Station
  • The Amish like the trains.
  • Ugh. 7 hour breakdown, Mendota, IL
  • Hello Kansas City
  • I think this is Gallup, NM
  • Flagstaff, AZ
  • Flagstaff, AZ
  • Near Flagstaff, AZ
  • Kingman Station
  • Hotel in Kingman!
  • Mojave
  • Barstow Station
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