Amtrak from Houston to Chicago?

missypie
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:00:32 +0000

My parents once took Amtrak from St.Louis to Dallas. The train was 4 hours late. It seems that freight trains have right of way over passenger, so they had to pull onto other tracks and wait for a freight train quite a few times. So plan for your 20 hour trip to be maybe 28. Plan on the food costing a fortune also.