Every day, the Empire Builder begins a 2,205-mile journey from Chicago to Seattle and Portland and vice-versa. One of Amtrak’s signature routes, it passes through Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, ...

In August 2025, my wife and I planned a trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit family and friends. While we frequently travel ...

Amtrak now is making it easier to buy tickets for the two routes that serve Edmonds and Everett. The national passenger train service has started its eTicket service beginning on Monday. It had been ...

As a cold blast of Arctic air looms next week, Amtrak has canceled multiple trains either originating or ending in Chicago. According to the agency, Monday’s Empire Builder train, scheduled to depart ...

Reed and family are riding the Empire Builder, Amtrak's historic Chicago-to-Seattle run, with a leg to Portland, Ore., the same train Winkenweder will take for his day trip and a route that stops in a ...

A BNSF derailment Saturday evening (Sept. 6, 2025) blocked the railroad’s main line on its Hi Line Subdivision, leading to ...

KALISPELL — Amtrak's Empire Builder train has resumed daily service from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, including a dozen stops along Montana's Hi-Line, after cutbacks made due to the pandemic. The ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Winter storms are impacting Amtrak service across the country, and the rail travel service has announced two Empire Builder trains will be canceled for both Tuesday and Wednesday.

After three days of waiting out the weather, Amtrak is running trains east from Seattle, Edmonds and Everett again starting Monday. Service on the Empire Builder line was suspended between Seattle and ...

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Amtrak's Empire Builder rounds a turn near East Glacier Park, Mont. in September 2011. Extreme freight congestion in the northern plains, particularly in North Dakota’s Bakken region, has resulted in ...