AMTRAK Chicago Layover: 30min vs. 4hrs
yo!
Planning a multi-day / multi-modal trek in May (wow - coming up fast...).
AMTRAK is letting me reserve a ticket with a bike where I have 30 minutes to get from one train to the next.
My other option is a 4 hour layover in Chicago, waiting for the next train to Milwaukee.
- Or I just start riding toward Milwaukee and forget any kind of layover or train switching.
- Or I plan on making the 30 minute switch, and if I don't make it, just take off on my bike. (i like this option a quite a bit....)
A quick BF-search didn't bring up AMTRAK-layover topics.
Does anyone have experience with cutting things that close?
I've used an early morning AMTRAK to head from home and ride back in one day - no problems. We had to roll bikes through business class and they got stashed between the engine and business class car.
I've used AMTRAK to go from Toledo to Pittsburgh, no problem. We had practically a whole empty car for bikes.
That's it. Thanks for any feedback.
Cheers.