Well, they do have active rails nearby so maybe you could hop on a freight train? Then again, you might get the living snot beat out of you courtesy of the friendly railroad bulls at UP. My advice is to take a car and avoid weeks or months of rehabilitation work. Or, if you're in good health maybe you could try your hand at dodging enraged motorists as you slowly cycle your way there. Google maps shows it taking six hours or so by bicycle from downtown Chicago. Assuming you took the metro as far as it would go I think you could cut that down considerably, to maybe a couple hours or so. Seems quite possible if you have a bike and don't mind the effort.Any ideas on how one could get from chicago to the illinois railway museum... without a car?
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A couple of hours isn't a bad guess. Woodstock IL has the nearest Metra station to Union IL where the Illinois Railway Museum is, and Woodstock is 91 minutes from Chicago (Ogilvie Station) by the UP-Northwest line. Taking the address for IRM (7000 Olson Rd., Union IL) and the Woodstock station (90 Church St., Woodstock IL), Google Maps computes a trip of 10 miles or 48 minutes for bicyclists. The route it computes for cyclists is direct yet avoids main highways, while the route it computes between the same points for a motorist uses major highways less suitable for cycling.Well, they do have active rails nearby so maybe you could hop on a freight train? Then again, you might get the living snot beat out of you courtesy of the friendly railroad bulls at UP. My advice is to take a car and avoid weeks or months of rehabilitation work. Or, if you're in good health maybe you could try your hand at dodging enraged motorists as you slowly cycle your way there. Google maps shows it taking six hours or so by bicycle from downtown Chicago. Assuming you took the metro as far as it would go I think you could cut that down considerably, to maybe a couple hours or so. Seems quite possible if you have a bike and don't mind the effort.Any ideas on how one could get from chicago to the illinois railway museum... without a car?
I didn't mention anything in Switzerland in my list mainly because I have ridden most of the spectacular ones. I have ridden the Glacier Express route once by Glacier Express and then by local trains in which you can open the windows and stick your camera and neck out (carefully). That is much more fun! Another spectacular line is the Martigny (Switzerland) - Chamonix (France) line.
I have taken the Cisalpino from Geneve to Milano soon after it was originally introduced with tilting trains sets. Of coruse that one was via Lausanne, Visp, Brig, Simplon Tunnel, Domodossola, Stresa. The view of the Loetschberg Line descending from the Loetschberg Tunnel down to Brig at the base of Rhone Valley, along the opposite mountainside is quite fascinating.I've ridden on Trenitalia's Cisalpino Train from Stuttgart, Germany to Milano, Italy via Zurich, Luzern, Lugano, Chiasso, Como then Milano.. Was a wonderful trip through the alps.. and on HSR
I want to go from Boston to London by rail!
Presumably via the Bering Sea/Strait tunnel, of course. After connecting rail links are built on the North American and Asian sides. Or something like that.I want to go from Boston to London by rail!
By which, the bridge or the tunnel route?
Are you talking the original Flying Scotsman Steam Engine?...because I saw it when I was in York this past April (National Rail Museum) and it's currently in pieces and being refurbished. I rode the Canadian back in 1988, and loved the trip (Spiral Tunnels were really cool)...I just wish they'd return that train to the old CP route where it belongs!
OK, then build it via the Pacific!
OK, then build it via the Pacific!(You mentioned the Atlantic, but not the Pacific - so you must be OK with it!)
I beg to differ. On the discover show "Extreme Engineering" it outlined exactly how you could do such a tunnel and put every airline out of business. It would be a vacuum sealed maglev tunnel so that the trains could go from London-NYC in about an hour. Very impressive and well thought out. Though, to put costs into perspective, it would cost the ENTIRE federal budget in a year, about 3 times the Netherlands GDP. It would also take about a century to build. The technology to make it happen exists now though. All it would take is multi-national cooperation (never gonna happen). But, it is possible to do in a feasible way.I'm a huge proponent of passenger rail, but if anyone tried to build a bridge or tunnel across the Atlantic Ocean I'll be first in line to vote that measure down. If you don't want to fly take a ship. If you don't want to take a ship, don't cross the ocean.
What exactly are you differing with then? It makes about as much sense as the "diamond elevator to space." Is it technically possible? Maybe. But anyone who could build such a thing would probably end up using their resources to simply enrich themselves or occupy a foreign country or any number of much easier tasks. "Extreme" projects like these might be great fodder for entertainment venues but they don't have much purpose in the practical world. *shrug*
I sat at the station in Jasper on Sunday and watched it go through. It is an amazing sight. I have no idea how many cars were on it but it stretched for as far as I could see. All I could do was sit and dream. maybe some day.
I believe there is a very low fare deal in coach on the Canadian this month, going cross country for under $200 or some such. They were selling out fast the last I checked.
