As the winter sun rises above some distant clouds, the Empire Builder breaks the calm as it flies west out of Larimore with a healthy holiday season consist.

The eastbound Empire Builder crosses Coram Bridge as it approaches Glacier National Park.

With the shadows growing shorter as the sun rises above the surrounding mountains, Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder to Chicago rolls through Essex 13 minutes behind schedule. GE P40DC #816 and a ... (more)

Amtrak 7, the Empire Builder, is cruising along the Flathead river just minutes away from a West Glacier Park station stop. The train has steadily made up time since being an hour and a half late ... (more)

On August 20, 1997, Amtrak's Eastbound Empire Builder is traversing Marias Pass in Montana near West Bison at 1800 hrs with Amtrak P42s 57 and 82 leading P40 833.

The Seattle section of the Empire Builder crosses the North Fork Skykomish River in the morning at Index, Washington while on its way down from Stevens Pass.

As evening comes to the mountain towns of the Western Washington Cascades, so does the eastbound Seattle/Spokane section of the Empire Builder as it wends its way up Stevens Pass. Here it crosses... (more)

Amtrak's P42DC locomotive with paint scheme saluting America's Military Veterans. Seen here on the point of the Empire Builder at St Paul's Union Depot. Brought to St Paul for Union Depot's Train... (more)

The Empire Builder is running ~ 2 hours late on a balmy late winter morning.

An intermission between the wacky weather (which consisted of snow and ice pellets) as the westbound Amtrak Empire Builder rolls along the Puget Sound on its final leg to Seattle.

Amtrak 399 leads a Baby Builder past Puetz Road in Oak Creek, WI in January of 1993. I think this train originated in the Twin Cities due to issues further west.

A four hour late westbound Empire Builder kicks up fresh snow as it hustles under the Williams County Road 5 overpass near old Fort Buford, within a few miles of crossing the Montana state ... (more)

After ditching a locomotive at Midway, the Empire Builder speeds along a straight section of the River Subdivision towards Red Wing with 145 out front.

The Seattle section of the Empire Builder arrives in Edmonds on a cold December morning.