Trains Chicago
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Trains Chicago
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Chicago Union Station: Five Tips to Ease Your Way Through Chicago’s Amtrak Train Station
Chicago’s Union Station is a landmark in the Amtrak system. Completed in 1925, it served as one of the six passenger train stations in downtown Chicago. As Amtrak’s current Chicago train station, it is still an exciting place to begin or end a train trip.
Here are five tips/hints for making your visit to Chicago Union Station enjoyable:
One: If you are a coach passenger, spend as little time in the coach waiting lounges as possible. Unfortunately, the coach lounges have the feel of airport gate lounges. If your train leaves from the south lounge and it is crowded, try finding seats in the north lounge. It is often less congested.
Two: If you will be spending hours waiting for your train, spend some time in the magnificent Great Hall. This relatively little used centerpiece of Chicago’s train station has 18 Corinthian columns, terra cotta walls and pink Tennessee marble floors. The Great Hall contains comfortable benches and plenty of room to spread out. Just be back to the lounge in time to catch your train!
Three: Although the Hertz counter is conveniently located outside the boarding lounges, their rental cars are two blocks away in a garage. It is probably easier to book ahead with Enterprise or National which we either pick you up at the front door of the train station or reimburse your taxi fare. You will be serviced at their facilities and will not have to face Chicago’s weather to pick up your car.
Four: Speaking of front door, there are many entrances to Chicago Union Station. If you drive to the address listed for the train station, you will see a beautiful building created in the Beaux Arts style that has a sign saying “Union Station” on it. Do not enter this building if you are an Amtrak passenger! Across Canal Street from the main building you will see a sign for the most convenient Amtrak entrance. Also, shuttle buses and taxis are available at this entrance.
Five: If you have time, don’t miss sampling Chicago’s great cuisine. On the mezzanine level there is a food court that serves Chicago hot dogs, barbecue and pizza. Between the boarding lounges and the Great Hall is a café and bar with good food. If you have time to leave the station, check out Wishbone for American food, the Parthenon for Greek food or Giordano’s for excellent Chicago pizza.
About the Author
Charles Self is the editor of the Amtrak Train Stations Across America website. At http://www.passengertraininfo.com/chicago.aspx you will find additional information on navigating Chicago Union Station and other Amtrak train stations.
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World Class Trains - The Empire Builder: Seattle To Chicago $6.99 World Class Trains - The Empire Builder: Seattle To Chicago |
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Chicago Stations & Trains Photo Archive $22.63 No other American city had such a fascinating group of railroad passenger stations as Chicago. This book highlights Chicago's six major railroad stations and the trains that served them. Included are Dearborn Station, Grand Central Station, Central Station, La Salle Street Station, North Western Station, and Union Station. During the heyday of passenger trains, Chicago was the undisputed rail center of the United States and its railroad stations were the gates to everywhere. Chicago's railroad stations featured superb architecture with marble floors and staircases, while restaurants, newsstands and shops filled the concourse areas. Steel latticework beams helped support glass-domed roofs and public address systems echoed train information throughout the high-ceiling stations. Huge station clocks loomed above the brass and neon train bulletin boards that listed "On Time" trains. Beyond the boarding gates, the constant parade of trains sounded with clanging bells and rumbling steel wheels. Historic photographs feature name trains like Super Chief, Capitol Limited, 20th Century Limited, Broadway Limited, California Zephyr, Hiawatha, 400, and City of Denver. Included are maps, station drawings, timetables and promotional advertising. |
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Chicago Postwar Passenger and Commuter Trains (Paperback) $47.48 In 1948, Chicago was the gathering place of 22 railroads, seven belt and switching roads, eight industrial railroads and three electric lines. Track was everywhere as passenger trains and commuter trains crowded the approaches to the terminals near the Loop that is Chicago, undisputed railroad capital of the world. Chicago Passenger Trains & Commuter Trains captures the spirit and challenges of the post-World War II era, as streamlined passenger trains arrived and departed from Chicago’s six celebrated stations during the pinnacle years of intercity train service. Welcome aboard as we ride those grand trains of the 1950s and 1960s into their twilight years and transition into Amtrak’s “Rainbow era.” Vintage and color photography, terminal and commuter maps, train brochures, postcards and tickets are featured. Nice color and vintage scenes for modelers. |
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At Chicago Union Station, Crowds Waiting to Board Westbound Trains to Ca $79.99 At Chicago Union Station, Crowds Waiting to Board Westbound Trains to Ca - Premium Photographic Print |
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Chicago & North Western Freight Trains and Equipment $27.63 Pat Dorin has compiled another nice C&NW book, this one dealing with a general overview of the line's freight trains and cars over the years, with concentration from the 1930s to modern times. This book is rich with great illustrations showing steam and diesel locomotives, cars of all types, and information about how the trains were operated, as well as excellent train photos. The book should be ideal for any C&NW fan or modeler interested in this road or in freight trains and equipment in general. |
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Trains $13.28 Passenger trains and electric trains. Here come the trains. All aboard |
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Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Prose $19.9 Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet's eye, and capture what it's really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience--a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O'Hare, and much more--these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With "Slow Trains Overhead," he has rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city's people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, "Slow Trains Overhead" evokes and commemorates human life in a great city. |
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Interior of Railroad Towers Which Give Signals for Trains Leading Out of Chicago Stations $79.99 Interior of Railroad Towers Which Give Signals for Trains Leading Out of Chicago Stations - Premium Photographic Print |
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Trains! $4.99 Cute illustrations bring trains to life for little ones. |
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Slow Trains Overhead $18 Few people writing today could successfully combine an intimate knowledge of Chicago with a poet’s eye, and capture what it’s really like to live in this remarkable city. Embracing a striking variety of human experience—a chance encounter with a veteran on Belmont Avenue, the grimy majesty of the downtown El tracks, domestic violence in a North Side brownstone, the wide-eyed wonder of new arrivals at O’Hare, and much more—these new and selected poems and stories by Reginald Gibbons celebrate the heady mix of elation and despair that is city life. With Slow Trains Overhead , he has rendered a living portrait of Chicago as luminously detailed and powerful as those of Nelson Algren and Carl Sandburg. Gibbons takes the reader from museums and neighborhood life to tense proceedings in Juvenile Court, from comically noir-tinged scenes at a store on Clark Street to midnight immigrants at a gas station on Western Avenue, and from a child's piggybank to nature in urban spaces. For Gibbons, the city’s people, places, and historical reverberations are a compelling human array of the everyday and the extraordinary, of poverty and beauty, of the experience of being one among many. Penned by one of its most prominent writers, Slow Trains Overhead evokes and commemorates human life in a great city. |
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American Passenger Trains: WWII to Amtrak $22.81 Passenger Trains played an important role in the growth of traveling across America or to the nearest city--the height of its service after WWII until the start up of Amtrak. This book provides railroad hobbyists, historians, museum operators, and transportation instructors and planners with information about the types of train services and operations in various corridors, such as Chicago - Milwaukee; the overnight and daytime long distance service; transcontinental trains, and the various types of local trains on both main lines and branch lines. The book reviews the types of sleeping car, coach, parlor car, food and beverage services available at that time. The equipment and service such as vista dome coaches, dining and lounge cars with many types of meals and beverages, sleeping accommodations and coach seats including reclining and leg rests were drawing cards for passenger traffic. This historic review, including train schedules and advertisements, provides information on train consists which is valuable for creating model railroad layout size trains. |
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Outbound Trains: In the Era Before the Mergers $14.64 "From the early 1960s through the 1970s." Outbound Trains features distinguished photographer, writer and rail magazine editor Jim Boyd's best images, with emphasis on the colorful first-generation diesel railroads. A lively text and scores of incomparable photographs take the reader coast to coast with most major American railroads and provide a sampling of interesting short lines and restored steam or main-line steam. There are spectacular photographs of aging roundhouses, country stations, busy interlocking towers and the great stations of Chicago; pre-Amtrak passenger trains, from the "Twentieth Century Limited" and the "Midnight Special" to lowly locals, mail trains and branch-line doodlebugs; N&W Geeps and SDs in the West Virginia coalfields, the "California Zephyr" threading through the Feather River canyon, and slant-nose, stainless-steel-paneled Burlington E5s racing across the Illinois prairie; Pennsylvania GG1 electrics, Milwaukee Road boxcabs and Little Joes; and the historic steam of Southern Pacific Daylight and Union Pacific Challenger 3985, the world's largest operating steam locomotive. Outbound Trains is an absolute must for every railfan's bookshelf. |
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Slow Trains Overhead : Chicago Poems and Stories $17 No Synopsis Available |
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