Day 70 : Chicago to New York - No diner ?
Made it! The train got in over 5 hours late so had half an hour to spare - not a lot of time to see Chicago - just time to change cash and change platforms. I have now been on the train for three days and I’m just about ready to change means of transport.
Finally got a few hours sleep. Ominously, there is no first call for breakfast from the Diner. Apparently its closed for the whole journey. What! That will mean nothing to eat for over 24 hrs, and this bloody train is late so we won’t be in New York until at least 9 o’clock tonight. Come back Indian Railways - all is forgiven!
Its just turned 5:00 pm and I’m beginning to feel a little bit peckish - still don’t know what happened with the diner. Nobody will say - sounds a bit fishy to me. The snack bar has sold out of everything and now we’re two hours late. Scenery today not very interesting - woods and fields. But it does show how much of the US is not built on - there’s miles and miles of space.
Catering supplies finally arrive and in desperation I queue for half an hour for a delightful micro-waved cheeseburger. It looks like we will finally arrive at about 10:00 tonight - 86 hrs after setting off. That’s like catching the train from Angouleme to Paris 34 times in a row. Its a bloody big country.