(Source: The Southern Illinoisan, February 4, 2017)
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Each night, bleary-eyed travelers board the City of New Orleans at the Amtrak station on South Illinois Avenue. That historic overnight passenger train, immortalized in Steve Goodman’s 1971 folk song, travels a 900-mile route up and down the country’s midsection, connecting landlocked Carbondale to the far-flung cities of Chicago and, of course, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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