Our journey from New York to Chicago was 950 miles, and then three hours later, from Chicago to Salt Lake City, another 1607 miles, a total of 4116km.
As we headed out of Chicago along the Hudson river we watched a beautiful sunset. We followed the Hudson for more than a hundred miles, and saw some lovely old houses along the way, including the summer home of the Vanderbilts.
We travelled along the Erie Canal for miles and along the shores of Lake Erie. Unfortunately we missed that, as it was through the night.
After a couple of hour's stop at Chicago and a change of trains we were on our way west once more. We had to wait for confirmation to proceed through a storm in Illinois. The sky grew very dark and stormy and we saw lots of sheet and fork lightning. We waited till the worst of the storm had passed but still travelled through some very heavy rain.
This picture is of a bridge over the Mississippi river, built around 1890. It is a swing bridge that lifts up to let barges through. That marked our passage from Illinois into Iowa.
We travelled through the same states as we did with Marcy, over large flat cornfields, stopping at Hastings, Nebraska near Grand Island around 2am, not that we were watching!
There was an amazing big orange moon, I tried to catch the image, but it looks more like a gloworm! Travel by train is great. Even at night time, especially with a full moon, the view out the window is interesting on the many occasions when the movement (or slowing) of the train wakes you up. We travelled many miles through the night. Have heard of the mile high club, is there a mile long club? ;-)
We stopped at Denver at 7am. The air was quite chilly there. Then we began the climb into the Rockies. Very soon we were seeing patches of snow, and before long icicles on rocks at entrances to the many tunnels.
;-) Ann-a-Gram
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