Planning a Trip

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Here are some of the resources I used in planning my recent trip to Chicago. Perhaps they will prove helpful to others, or inspire others to seek similar information in planning their own trips.

http://www.lacity.org/ANGELSWALK

Outstanding information for planning a walking tour of Downtown Los Angeles

http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago

http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago/Loop

http://wikitravel.org/en/Loop_Art_Tour

http://wikitravel.org/en/Chicago_skyline_guide

Outstanding information for planning a visit to Chicago, with Photographs

http://www.chicagoloopalliance.com/visittheloop/index.htm

Maps for Walking Tours specializing in Art, Landmarks, and Theatres

http://hometown.aol.com/chirailfan/

Chicago Transit & Railfan Website

http://members.aol.com/chirailfan/orangfan.html

Railfanning the Orange Line

AAA Maps... State, City, and Special Guide Maps (particularly "Indian Country" and "Downtown Los Angeles", and Recreation Map "Sierra Nevada - Lake Tahoe Area" for a close-up of the Zephyr's Route over Donner Pass). I marked the Maps in advance to show Amtrak's routes, using on-line tools such as Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Mapquest, which can show RailRoads at the appropriate scale.

Detailed schedules and route maps from many local transit agencies, found on the Web

Reservations for Hotels near Stations, found on the Web

www.railroadmap.com

Affordable RailRoad Map Software

http://www.trainweb.com/routes

Archive of Historic Amtrak Route Guides