Train from Michigan to San Francisco

Earlier, we posted about our train trip from Michigan back to the San Francisco Bay Area.  A cross-country train trip is an amazing way to see America.

Here are pictures from the first leg of our journey, from Ann Arbor to Chicago.

Looking out the window as we start to REALLY move:

Train station in Battle Creek, Michigan:

Entering Kalamazoo:

Countryside moving by:

Power plant:

Heavy industry:

Dramatic-shaped smoke stack:

Home of the White Sox, right by the Amtrak tracks:

Chicago backyards:

Waiting for the next train, we briefly stepped outside Chicago's Union Station to look around: