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Originally Posted by Gargoyle (Post 7180218)

Only if you wear an adult diaper. I used to drive it R/T three or four times a year, took about 13 or 14 hours.

Washington to Chicago: I've done it several times, stopping once for gas and food at Youngstown, Ohio. Leave DC around 230p, get to the Loop around midnight, was my usual deal. No problem.

PS: Re the adult diaper: I'm no astronaut. :)

Amtrak has it's own time: each hour takes 70 minutes... :)

The problem with Amtrak is once they fall behind schedule, the train loses priority to all the on-time traffic when they get to single-track situations. I tried taking Amtrak once from Lansing MI to Chicago - it was running 15 minutes late from Toronto, but it got stuck at a crossing about 3 miles outside of town and sat there for an hour, then we left Lansing and it went two miles and sat again for another hour.

But as another posted said, Amtrak is fine if you're riding on the first part of a service.