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 ...

A blizzard in the Great Plains, combined with a disabled freight train east of Glacier National Park in Montana, prompted Amtrak to cancel the Empire Builder from Seattle, Edmonds and Everett.

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 ...

Amtrak is preemptively canceling ... The suspended services include the Empire Builder, Southwest Chief, California Zephyr and Train #421 portion of the Texas Eagle (Los Angeles-San Antonio).

and continue to serve on routes such as the Auto Train, California Zephyr, and Empire Builder. However, the ends of their service lives are on the horizon, which is why Amtrak has begun the ...