Chicago-bound Pere Marquette rolls across a frozen-over Kalamazoo River on a beautiful winter morning. Rare is the winter when this river freezes, and even rarer to see it fully covered with 6" of snow the first week of March.
Amtrak has three routes that connect Michigan with Chicago, but none to the East or South. The routes are: Wolverine - Pontiac - Chicago; Blue Water - Port Huron - Chicago, and Pere Marquette - Grand Rapids - Chicago.