After logging thousands of miles on trains with my family of six, including two memorable trips on the Amtrak Empire Builder, I’m excited to share what you need to know about this iconic train ...

So I decided I'd make an adventure of it, and took a 57-hour-long train ride instead. The trip was broken into two parts: A 32-hour ride from Montana to Chicago on Amtrak's Empire Builder train ...

Amtrak’s 46-hour Empire Builder ... American landscapes outside the window, the Empire Builder provides one of the most underrated long-haul train routes. After all, as Magliari says, there ...

The Borealis train saw ridership increase by 227 percent from May 2024 to April 2025 while Amtrak Virginia saw its highest ...

Amtrak Empire Builder at Rondout, Ill., July 1983. Wikimedia Commons/Tim_kd5urs. Touted as the first Superliner-equipped long-distance train in late 1979, the Empire Builder reminds us how very old ...

Most people who ride Amtrak ... train. So I bought a $499 USA Rail Pass, good for up to 10 trips of any length in 30 days, and selected a half-dozen stops along the route. Since the Empire Builder ...

In comparison, I opted to take a bus instead of a train when traveling to Milwaukee last fall because an Empire Builder ticket cost hundreds of dollars. Compared to driving, Amtrak is often more ...

With the coldest air of the season expected to blanket the Chicago area in coming days, Amtrak has preemptively canceled multiple trains. According to the agency, the Empire Builder train set to ...