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Happy New Year! Enjoy my video about my preThanksgiving trip to Chicago from New Orleans on the legendary City of New Orleans train. 19 hours and 1500+km...let's go!

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0:00 Intro
0:35 Union Passenger Terminal, New Orleans
1:47 Boarding and Amtrak Bedroom tour
5:20 Departure, map and route details
6:10 train tour
7:54 Lunch time...hmm!
9:12 Blinkist sponsor integration
10:34 North through Mississippi
11:28 Smoke stop at Jackson MI
12:24 Amtrak bedroom made up to bed mode
13:22 Amtrak's disappointing "flexible dining"
14:58 Through to Memphis
15:53 Daylight Savings quirk
17:27 Day 2
18:00 Breakfast and powering up through IL
20:00 Arrival, conclusions and thanks!

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