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Ashley Shann gives a tour of her Brightline train trip from Aventura to Miami, which she described as a really smooth process ...
What was left of the “Star” was combined with the “Capitol” as a train that Amtrak calls the Floridian. Unlike the train of the same name from the 1970s that used a more-direct route between Chicago ...
Chicago’s Union Station is one of the country’s grandest (Photo: Getty ... but I’m leaving it behind on Amtrak’s daily “Floridian” sleeper train service to Miami.
Amtrak launched a new temporary route last ... For the record, I wasn’t technically riding the Floridian. That train goes across the state to Tampa, then comes back to Central Florida and ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Winter had Chicago in its grip. The sidewalks in the Loop were shiny and treacherous with ice, and the ...
The Amtrak Floridian navigates street trackage on the ... powers through Louisville’s Crescent Hill neighborhood with train 8 for Cincinnati in 1949. Charles B. Castner photo The South Wind also ...
Whether you are sipping champagne in a private suite or trundling into the depths of night on a rickety reclining chair, travelling by sleeper train is always a memorable journey. An antidote to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An Amtrak train travelling through Northern Washington hit a fallen tree, causing the tree to impale the train’s front windshield Tuesday night during a major bomb ...
I text my parents a photo from Pat of me while waiting ... The sun rises as Amtrak’s Train No. 41, the Floridian, travels south toward Miami from Chicago. It’s OK though.
But the northbound train was late, so they rode south and changed on a siding 15 miles north of Birmingham. On Sept. 30, The Tennessean reported on one of the final trips of Amtrak's Floridian.