HOLLAND, Mich. – See five million blooming tulips, not brake lights and toll booths, this May 4 and 11 when Amtrak and the Michigan Department of Transportation offer additional service between Chicago and Holland for the annual Tulip Time Festival.
These trains on the daily Pere Marquette route, sponsored by MDOT, will run on two Saturdays during the festival and enable same-day visits to what has been heralded as the nation’s “Best Flower Festival” and “America’s Best Small-Town Festival.” More than 1,000 customers rode Amtrak trains on this route during these weekends in 2018.
Train No. 374 will depart Chicago at 7:05 a.m.; Hammond-Whiting, Ind., at 7:29 a.m. (both times Central); St. Joseph at 10:01 a.m.; and Bangor at 10:37 a.m. Arrival at Holland is at 11:28 a.m. (all Michigan times Eastern). Train No. 375 departs Holland at 5:50 p.m., Bangor at 6:33 p.m., St. Joseph at 7:11 p.m., Hammond-Whiting at 7:51 p.m. It will arrive in Chicago at 8:24 p.m.
–From an Amtrak press release
