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Attention Rail Travelers!
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Los Angeles to Chicago To Be Announced
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Cruise to Chicago in style, enjoy the Windy City for two full days (plus two partial days) and return home rested and relaxed ... all without busting the bank or fatting the credit card!
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$699.00 round trip plus Amtrak accommodation fare! |
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Love premium rail travel ... but have a hard time justifying the enormous costs? Here is a perfect blend of premium vintage railcar travel coupled with normal Amtrak line space. Introducing the "Super Chief Club Car". The Overland Trail becomes your daytime lounge car while Amtrak provides you their regular accommodations at night.
Do you love
adventure? Do you love the mystique and romance long associated with
exotic train travel? Then please, peruse these features.
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There's no fighting for lounge space as your private railcar, the 39 seat Overland Trail, is for you and your traveling companions exclusive occupancy. With only 28 ticketed passengers, there is room to move around and make new friends as you visit with your like minded travelers. Enjoy a game of canasta at one of the four card tables. Read your favorite book or the latest periodicals in a most joyous atmosphere ... the comfortable and colorful surroundings of the Overland's lounge has ambiance that just won't quit! And of course, WHY do we love rail travel in the first place ... you'll enjoy ever changing vista's out of the large picture windows as we transverse the fabled route of the Super Chief!
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The Overland Trail is a 1940s built, former Southern Pacific club lounge that was built as a mid train 1st class lounge for the San Francisco Overland. Carefully restored and upgraded to meet current Amtrak requirements, the Overland Trail can be entrained on virtually any Amtrak train for exciting destinations around the country. The car features a stunning Streamline Modern interior, a most gracious quarter-circle bar, a comfortable ride, and expansive picture windows. You'll arrive in Chicago in style aboard this gem from the past! |
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Our Routing: The former Super Chief route of the old Santa Fe Railway (now BNSF). Operated by Amtrak and transversed by the Southwest Chief. |
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Our Destination: Chicago ... rail traveler Mecca! The crossroads of the nation. Though rail passenger transportation has been knocked off its pedestal for many decades now, Chicago is still a major rail freight center with a myriad of rail yards and other rail related facilities. And yet, Chicago remains the passenger hub it always was, now under the Amtrak flag ... albeit, on a much smaller scale. The city is full of wonderful transit opportunities with commute lines running out of the city in all directions. You won't lack for things to do ... wonderful museums and other attractions abound. If you're rail oriented, a trip to the nearby Illinois Rail Museum might be in order ... and is easy to do as the Grayline offers a 7 hour, $63 opportunity! As our patrons are "on their own" while in Chicago, we will not pretend to know all the hot spots or direct your paths .. the Internet might be a great place to start planning where YOU will go while enjoying your layover in Chi-town
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Hog butcher for the world, Tool maker, stacker of wheat, Player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the big shoulders." —Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" (1916)
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Additional Information:
Need help with hotel accommodations in Chicago? We can recommend a place or two. In fact, if enough passengers are interested in the same property, maybe group reservations can be made.
Phone/email reservations will be accepted but not confirmed until receipt of lounge car fare and proof of Amtrak accommodation charge. Please send us a photo copy of your Los Angeles to Chicago Amtrak ticket along with your Super Chief Club Car upgrade fare of $699.00 per person to:
Debbie Hatrick
2054 S. Halladay St.
Santa Ana, CA 92707
Please make checks out to: Debbie Hatrick
Please limit your "carry on" into the lounge to small articles as there is not any extra storage space. If you have large bags, please consider checking them through to Chicago in Amtrak's Baggage car (after removing what you might need during travel).
The lounge (while travelling) will close each night at 11:30 pm and open at 6:30 am. There will be very limited access to the car while in Chicago, please look carefully for all of your belongings. Emergency contact for Conductor Bill: (714) 309-3925
Beer and wine are available in the lounge after 2:00 pm until the lounge closes at 11:30pm. Although we do not want to limit the number of alcoholic beverages served to each individual, we do ask that you please drink responsibly (please be considerate of our fellow travelling companions) ... we reserve the right to limit the consumption of said beverages. With any sign of drunkenness, we will ask you to retire to your Amtrak accommodation. Please note: alcoholic beverages cannot be taken from the Overland Trail into the Amtrak train (strictly enforced).
Click Here to View Amtrak's Southwest Chief Schedule
