Amtrak ’s Empire Builder will resume regular passenger rail service routes and schedules between Chicago and Seattle, including North Dakota, in early January. As part of the service resumption, set ...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Amtrak officials say the company is changing the schedules of its Empire Builder passenger train because of congestion from increasing oil freight along the line. The Empire ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder may not be the most fashionable train in the world, or the fastest, or the most elegant. But it has something that other trains do not have — the wide Montana scenery that ...

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Amtrak’s Empire Builder route was expected to re-open in Montana on Friday, Feb. 10, after storms closed the line in the Marias Pass area. A westbound train departing Chicago on Friday was expected to ...

Amtrak's Empire Builder makes its way along the southern boundary of Glacier National Park near West Glacier in June 2011. Extreme freight congestion in the northern plains, particularly in North ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder train traverses dramatic landscapes across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, ...

WHILE ARRESTING INGLIS. A NEW PASSENGER TRAIN COULD BE ON THE WAY, CONNECTING MILWAUKEE TO CHICAGO AND THE TWIN CITIES. THE AMTRAK SERVICE WILL HAVE MULTIPLE STOPS IN WISCONSIN, INCLUDING ONES AT ...

ABOARD THE EMPIRE BUILDER (Reuters) - Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few young families gazing out the windows of Amtrak's least-profitable and third-longest ...

An anonymous listener recently slipped a note through the Bubbler Talk ticket window, asking if it’s true that Amtrak will finally offer a second daily roundtrip passenger train between Milwaukee and ...