http://themortons.org/amtrak06/ A group of articles from beginning with my childhood and ending up on a couple of AMTRAK trains. en-us 2007-10-10T00:38:31-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000243.html Summary of a trip to Boston.... john 2007-10-10T00:38:31-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000241.html This is going to be a catch up. I’m planning a quick trip for 2007. I’ve sort of been thinking about it for two months and I should have started this back then but I didn’t, so, I’ll try to... john 2007-08-05T15:39:48-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000235.html I should have done this months ago. A summary of our trip, the good and the bad.... john 2006-12-06T22:59:35-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000234.html We're home in Louisville now. The adventure continued, even after we arrived in Chicago. Amtrak was great compared to, well, you'll just have to read the rest of it.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-22T12:15:56-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000233.html A mechanic boarded in St Paul. Things got better and rumors traveled through the train "faster than a speeding locomotive." (I borrowed that line from Superman.)... 2006 trip john 2006-07-20T22:03:56-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000232.html Besides being late, things are starting to break. Important things like the restrooms and the airconditioning.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-20T17:37:50-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000231.html Nine hours late, then ten hours late. We make up a little here and there and we're nine hours late again. Then we get stuck waiting for another train and we loose all the time we had made up. The... 2006 trip john 2006-07-20T13:40:48-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000230.html It’s 11:00PM and we should be just a little past Rugby, North Dakota. That’s about five hundred miles from Havre, Montana, and Havre is where we are right now. Every time we make up a few minutes it seems that... 2006 trip john 2006-07-19T11:45:03-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000229.html It was 1:45AM when we left Seattle, only nine hours late. It has it's good points.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-19T11:21:04-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000228.html We're trying to get out of here but the train's broke.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-19T00:45:49-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000227.html Today we did Seattle. Gee was it cold!!! The high for the day was 68 degrees. Frances had a jacket but she was still cold. All I had was short sleeves. I bought her a sweater and I bought myself... 2006 trip john 2006-07-18T00:41:16-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000226.html They sometimes refer to it as the "Coast Starlate" for a reason. Read on........ 2006 trip john 2006-07-16T05:06:41-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000225.html We toured a chilly San Francisco and got out of town.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-15T05:02:19-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000223.html L.A. to Emeryville on the Coast Starlight has been the best part of the trip so far.... 2006 trip john 2006-07-14T03:28:17-05:00 http://themortons.org/amtrak06/archives/000222.html What a great nap I had last night. I had a little head ache last night after we walked around for awhile. I took a few aspirin, laid down, and the next thing I knew, it was 5:00AM. At least... 2006 trip john 2006-07-13T02:28:51-05:00