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My best pre-Amtrak trips were the great private car "Chief Illini" trip to Mexico from Chicago over the Wabash, KCS, MoPac, and N de M, returning via the SP-RI Golden State. <br />Once on the "Chief" when I had a complete Santa Fe conductor's uniform, at age 16,and was friends with the Passenger Traffic Manager, the train's conductor had me do all his work. <br />A trip from Toronto to Chicago on the Grand Trunk's "Maple Leaf." I had a seat in the parlor-diner. We left Toronto 20 minutes late and arrived in Chicago 10 minutes early. Along the way we hit a bit over the century mark. Two geeps, five cars. <br /> <br />Post-Amtrak...A number of trips on the Broadway were pretty good. Then I felt I was missing something as it wasn't really the Pennsy. But as I look back now I realize how close it was to it's predecessor. Twin unit diner, real sleepers, real old porters with great stories, fun in the club car with the girls (it was the seventies,) yadah, yadah. yadah. <br /> <br />Mitch
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