A 2 1/2 hour late Amtrak Empire Builder Train #7 cruises through Picnic Point Park as the train continues to salvage some lost time. The lead unit has a 'white scar' on front of the engine.

A 3 hour late Amtrak Empire Builder #7 coast along the Puget Sound as it starts to slow down for the station stop at Edmonds. AMTK 42, 406, and the exhibit train was also on the consist as well, m... (more)

A 3 hour late Amtrak Empire Builder #7 coast along the Puget Sound as it starts to slow down for the station stop at Edmonds. AMTK 42, 406, and the exhibit train was also on the consist as well, m... (more)

Old meets new. Amtrak #7 stopped at Midway Station in St. Paul with the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Skytop Lounge.

The Builder rolls over a glass-smooth Salmon Bay.

Amtrak P42 134 departs Wisconsin Dells with the westbound Builder.

Old meets new. Amtrak #7 stopped at Midway Station in St. Paul with the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha Skytop Lounge.

The Mother's Day edition of the Empire Builder cruises into Columbus, Wisconsin a few minutes early with several railfan folks coming to view the train.

The hogger on the westbound Builder has the hammer down and fingers in the window as he hustles his train towards Watertown, Wisconsin.

A tad behind the advertised (nearly 8 hours to be exact) Amtrak 7, the westbound Empire Builder, would be through at sunrise here, just east of Minot, ND. Since today's power includes an SD70MAC,... (more)

Locomotive problems in Minnesota caused the westbound Empire Builder #7 to be delayed resulting in placing a BNSF SD70MAC on point in order to keep the train moving. Here the Empire Bui... (more)

Today's #7 departs Minot a bit off the advertised with the Phase 4 heritage P42 leading.

Train 7 the Empire Builder with 11 cars makes its late evening appearance at Grand Crossing tower.

Three of Amtrak's finest pull the westbound Empire Builder into Seattle's King Street Station about a half hour early while a southbound BNSF train hauls a few Boeing 737 aircraft bodies.

Amtrak Cascades F59PHI no. 470 leads the Empire Builder through Brookfield, WI. It was typical cloudy and gray Wisconsin weather, but it's not every day that you see King Tut flying through Brookf... (more)