We arrive in Chicago –  US Rail Journeys Series 3 Episode 32

‘We arrive in Chicago’ completes our journey on the Texas Eagle. In 62 hours we have passed through cities and countryside, deserts and lush pasture, an amazing, ever changing, panorama.

Please click on a thumbnail to see the photographs that go with this podcast:

Leaving Pontiac:

Our stop in Pontiac is brief, a few seconds maybe and worthy of a Formula 1 pit stop.

Pontiac station hosts both the Lincoln Service, running between Chicago Union Station and the Gateway Transportation Center in St. Louis, and the Texas Eagle. The station has a single, low-level side platform and a modern station building for passengers. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

Originally a stop on the Chicago and Alton Railroad the old station depot, built in 1901, was replaced with the current one in 2017.

The old station, one block north of the new station, becomes a pizzeria.

Joliet:

The railway reaches Joliet began in 1852, enabling the city to rapidly grow into a railway hub. In 1909 an improvement project removes level crossings and constr