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OK FOLKS I BLEW IT - APOLOGY - - - - - That last 90 degree turn on the Grand Staircase was my disorientated error ! Jackson Street does NOT have access to the Metropolitan Lounge ! It is the Canal Street side that has the closed enter/exit. Reference this photo/image by Scott Lovenberg of the...

It is working for me - just pulled up the (Mid)- West section: http://dixielandsoftware.net/cgi-bin/getmap.pl?mapname=West

I am not familiar with that Canal (Concourse) entrance which appears to be in an interior corridor. The one I was referencing has windows to Jackson St and the entrance from same is signed closed to be use only as an emergency exit. The Lounge room on the 2nd floor has huge Pennsy railroad...

A picture diagram photo image explains it better - https://www.google.com/maps/@41.878778,-87.6404608,281m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu CUS is in the center of the image - note that CUS is actually 2 blocks - the west block is the Great Hall Metropolitan Lounge and the east block with trains...

The CUS Metropolitan Lounge is on the same level as the Great Hall. The Jackson street (street level) entrance is CLOSED - Emergency Exit Only. That Jackson St entrance 2nd story level is the only view to the outside. Private Note: the 2nd floor Lounge is nice quiet spot of respite away from...

Unless current construction changes things the train arrival/departure level is virtually on the that same level. Albeit about 3-4 steps or sloping ramp up to Metro Lounge Great Hall level. The concession food court is one level above that. And one more level to the street surface level. There...

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayce,_South_Carolina,_train_collision CAUTION NOTE this accident happened in 2018 and not to be confused with this current freight accident ! Haven't pinned it down exactly where this happened ? Reference Google Map...

Excellent photo documentary - only improvement would be to do this in an video/audio mode. As I recall - - - - - That Madison Avenue entrance - interesting in that you go down stairs (only*** no mechanical assist elevator/escalator) to the end of the north track platforms - thence about a two...

Good golly that is great !

Great idea ! Don't forget about that "Big Ditch" in Boston Southwest light rail in MSP et al others If this was happening in a World War time there would no stalling around to rebuild bridges and other infrastructures ! We are fast becoming a Grid Lock society as far as automobile travel in...

After clearing the wreckage the harbor can reopen to maritime traffic while what type of bridge will be constructed is planned - then there will be times of traffic closing while a main span is put back into place. Being in Minnesota (Minneapolis) when the 35W bridge went down a few years back...

So you would have a night time Coast Starlight with moon light views of the coast ? Stops - Salinas (Monterey) - San Luis Obispo - Santa Barbara - others ? Would it be competitive with air travel between the points SFO (OAK-SJC-BUR-ONT-SNA-LGB) LAX ? Deluxe sleeper accommodations would have...

A picture says a Great deal about the Great Hall - reference LINK: https://chicagounionstation.com/information/station-map Browse around - although realize the information maybe dated - Which brings up the subject about what entrances are presently open for access to the Great Hall. I...

Arrived after 11 pm (ole reliable late number 8) everyone hustled off the train through the south concourse - checked baggage - and up onto Canal Street and left to ones own resources ! It felt like a rapid evacuation of a morgue in a plague condition ! Embarrassing enough I needed to use the...

OK just a casual observation - - - - - It is a zoo and then some at CUS. Until you have navigated and negotiated the maze a few times it would seem to be an impossible dream that someone would design this abomination. Anyway so much for that diatribe - - - Reference this Google LINK...