Sept. 2-3, 2023: Back to the rust belt
I confess that it hasn't been that long since my last train trip, which you might have read about. I find that there is a certain withdrawal symptom that comes from any train trip -- after I finish one trip it isn't long before I begin pining for the next one. So it's with that in mind that I this summer I planned a "triangle" type route throughout the Midwest, which will give me a chance to ride a couple of trains I haven't been on before, one being the famous Acela. I convinced my friend Eric to come along for the ride from D.C. to Chicago, Boston and then back to D.C. The first leg, Amtrak's westbound Capitol Limited, I won't go into too much detail about since I wrote about it during my last trip. Like my last trip on the Capitol, the consist featured only three Superliners today: a coach car, sleeper and dining car. I lament the equipment shortage Amtrak has been experiencing since the start of the pandemic. As late as 2019 this train was runnin