After a long, snowy winter, it's finally beginning to feel like spring in Minnesota as the sun comes out from behind some clouds and shines on the eastbound Empire Builder departing Saint Paul.
Amtrak #8, the eastbound Empire Builder, has 2 Siemens Chargers, #'s 308 and 310 as it's only power this day as it crosses the Mississippi River and rolls into La Crosse, Wisconsin. Not only that,... (more)
Normally arriving at Sandpoint, Idaho, at 2:20 a.m., Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder scurries through Algoma approaching Sandpoint a bit off the advertised at 10:10 a.m. on February 2, 2023. A... (more)
The eastbound Empire Builder soars over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River and Java Creek on the large bridge east of Essex as it climbs through the Rockies on a pristine summer morning.
Some of the first light of a chilly January day finds the front of a late running eastbound Empire Builder as it climbs out of the Red River valley on the former Northern Pacific mainline in weste... (more)