Train passengers learn about lakeshore scenery

When you ride the Wolverine out of Chicago’s Union Station into Michigan about 60 percent of the time you’re either in or on the border of the National Lakeshore. Once the train passes Hammond, the National Park starts in bits and pieces.

Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers reports Frank and Ruth Maxwell are among about 20 teams of volunteers who board the Wolverine in Chicago and ride to Niles, and back three times a week, explaining the biodiversity of the Indiana Dunes to passengers as part of the Trails and Rails program.

Excerpt:

Shortly after the train departs Union Station, Frank and Ruth Maxwell take to the public address system, telling passengers to be on the lookout for the  waving grasses and patches of wildflowers that soon will be outside their  windows, and inviting them to learn more about what they’re seeing.

For more, please read the rest of the story.

Source: Michigan Association of Rail Passengers