Train travel is much maligned in the United States, and many bemoan the fact that it is not what it could be or should be or used to be. The long-distance Empire Builder, especially, faces severe ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder train traverses dramatic landscapes across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington State. Covering the entire route in 46 hours at an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 46-hour cross-country rail trip—which can cost as little as $160—is nothing short of epic.

If you’re interested in trading planes for trains, here’s the story of our family’s first Amtrak Empire Builder experience – in coach! After logging thousands of miles on trains with my family of six, ...

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 ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mont. — Three people have died and numerous injuries have been reported after an Amtrak train derailed along Montana's Hi-Line in Liberty County on Saturday. Several dead, numerous injuries ...

Daily service on the Empire Builder, the only Amtrak line that traverses Montana, will resume May 23, the federally funded passenger rail service announced last week. The rail agency said that the ...

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 ...