{"id":33354,"date":"2024-05-03T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T20:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=33354"},"modified":"2024-05-03T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T20:36:50","slug":"introducing-amtrak-borealis-trains-with-expanded-service-between-st-paul-and-chicago-via-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=33354","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Amtrak Borealis trains with Expanded Service between St. Paul and Chicago via Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets are now available for a second daily Amtrak service between the Twin Cities and Chicago, via Milwaukee: new state-sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/Borealis\"><em>Borealis\u00a0<\/em><\/a>trains originate from St. Paul at midday and from Chicago in the late morning. Travelers seeking a more comfortable, sustainable and productive choice than driving will have double the current rail options, starting May 21, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak\u00a0<em>Borealis<\/em>\u00a0trains will offer Coach and Business Class in addition to a caf\u00e9 car featuring regional items. Customers will enjoy wide reclining seats with ample legroom, no middle seats, free Wi-Fi, and views of the Mississippi River between St. Paul and La Crosse, Wisc., in daylight in both directions across Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The trains will make the current\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/routes\/empire-builder-train.html\"><em>Empire Builder<\/em><\/a>\u00a0stops between St. Paul and Milwaukee and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/routes\/hiawatha-train.html\"><em>Hiawatha<\/em><\/a>\u00a0stops between Milwaukee and Chicago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.amtrak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Twice-Daily-Service-MSP-CHI.pdf\">(see schedule)<\/a>. Another benefit of the Amtrak\u00a0<em>Borealis\u00a0<\/em>service is a new eastbound Amtrak origination from Ramsey County\u2019s Union Depot in St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The new service is sponsored by the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Amtrak now operates 29 state-supported routes with 18 state partners.<\/p>\n<p><em>-via Press Release<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/railpace.com\/introducing-amtrak-borealis-trains-with-expanded-service-between-st-paul-and-chicago-via-milwaukee\/\">Introducing Amtrak Borealis trains with Expanded Service between St. Paul and Chicago via Milwaukee<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/railpace.com\/\">Railpace Newsmagazine<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets are now available for a second daily Amtrak service between the Twin Cities and Chicago, via Milwaukee: new state-sponsored Borealis\u00a0trains originate from St. Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[713,47],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-33354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-rail-news","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}