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Old Feb 7, 2007 | 6:07 pm
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Originally Posted by ND76
... (and the schedule is padded)...
I'll say. Train 51, the Cardinal, is timetabled at 27+ hours from New York to Chicago. It takes 23 hours to get from Washington, DC to Chicago. You can drive from DC to Chicago in about ten hours.

Even up here in the Northwest, a trip from Seattle to Portland is 2.5 hours by car, four hours -- maybe -- on Amtrak. It's incredibly slow going.
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