Comments on: The Lakeshore Limited from NYC to Chicago https://www.matthew-woodward.com/2020/02/the-lakeshore-limited-from-nyc-to-chicago.html/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Colin Taylor https://www.matthew-woodward.com/2020/02/the-lakeshore-limited-from-nyc-to-chicago.html/#comment-10353 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:19:52 +0000 http://www.matthew-woodward.com/?p=8928#comment-10353 About 12 years ago my late wife, Jan, and I travelled this same train. After a few nights in the windy city we caught the ‘Wolverine’ (I seem to recall) to visit cousins in Ann Arbor. They couldn’t work out why we wanted to travel by train. Jan being in a wheelchair was winched up and down at the stations on a special hand cranked platform. It was a bit more scary in Montreal a couple of years earlier when she was taken, in her wheelchair, up the escalator by a big porter.
We had an accessible cabin at the end of the car complete with en-suite shower etc. The shower was on a timer and the drain in the floor was blocked so we had to make a dam with towels to stop a flood.
I don’t remember food being too good either. The limitless coffee facility had broken, and that is a whole story in itself. I remember at a stop during the night an announcement asking if there was a doctor aboard – never did find out why.

]]> By: Matthew Woodward https://www.matthew-woodward.com/2020/02/the-lakeshore-limited-from-nyc-to-chicago.html/#comment-10350 Sun, 09 Feb 2020 21:43:19 +0000 http://www.matthew-woodward.com/?p=8928#comment-10350 In reply to Colin Taylor.

Please try again Colin!

]]> By: Colin Taylor https://www.matthew-woodward.com/2020/02/the-lakeshore-limited-from-nyc-to-chicago.html/#comment-10347 Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:49:27 +0000 http://www.matthew-woodward.com/?p=8928#comment-10347 I’m assuming my previous comment was a bit too long as I looked up while typing and the box had gone blank so I don’t know if you will have got some, or indeed any of it. Email me when you get chance and let me know.

Regards,
Colin

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