With both Empire Builders running well behind schedule, a rare meet takes place at Moorhead Jct in daylight. Train 8 is coming off the Hillsboro Sub and crossing over to main 2 in front of Amtrak... (more)
I've always wanted a picture of Amtrak passing through Hawley and July 4, 2012 was finally my time. A very late Empire Builder heads east for its next stop in Detroit Lakes on a very hazy and sti... (more)
The engineering crew on board the westbound Empire Builder have quite the view over the Wisconsin River during the Wisconsin Dells station stop. Summer was in full swing, busy, and rather ... (more)
Running just over 3 hours late, the eastbound Empire Builder sprints along the former Northern Pacific mainline across Minnesota.
The westbound Empire Builder is slightly behind schedule as it needed to wait for the four-hour late eastbound Empire Builder at the crossover east of Reeseville.
Father meets son as the eastbound and westbound Empire Builders meet at Milwaukee... Engineer of train 8, Craig Willett, waves with a big smile to his son, engineer on train 7. Adding this today... (more)
The Empire Builder led by #824, GE P40DC, curves around the yard tracks in the Canadian Pacific St. Paul Yard at milepost 407...the number of miles left to its termination at Chicago.
Three of Amtrak's finest lead the Empire Builder over Interstate 35E and Osceola Avenue on the Merriam Park Subdivision in St. Paul, Minnesota led by GE P40DC #824.
The Empire Builder temporarily follows the Ayd Mill Road as it rounds one of the many curves along the Merriam Park subdivision between MSP Midway Station and downtown St. Paul.
Only a few mintues out of MSP Midway Station, the Empire Builder cruises towards downtown St. Paul along the Ayd Mill Road.
An "on-time" performing Empire Builder passes through the milepost 402.8 defect detector through Newport, Minnesota en route to Red Wing.
Easter Sunday's Empire Builder travels down the grade from short line hill in St. Paul right on time on a very nice sunny morning.
Amtrak 156 prepares to depart Edmonds station on it's last few miles to it's final destination in Seattle.
Eastbound Amtrak No. 28, the "Empire Builder" was crossing the causeway at Horsethief Lake State Park as a barge moved gravel west on August 14, 2002.