Amtrak ’s Empire Builder will resume regular passenger rail service routes and schedules between Chicago and Seattle, including North Dakota, in early January. As part of the service resumption, set ...

Severe weather prompted Amtrak to cancel the Empire Builder route between Minneapolis St. Paul and Seattle/Portland on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29, company officials said. Thursday’s Empire Builder was ...

In August 2025, my wife and I planned a trip to the Pacific Northwest to visit family and friends. While we frequently travel by air and rental car, and have taken shorter train trips in the U.S. and ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder may not be the most fashionable train in the world, or the fastest, or the most elegant. But it has something that other trains do not have — the wide Montana scenery that ...

Amtrak's Empire Builder passenger train will return to full service across North Dakota and Minnesota early next week. Starting with the eastbound departures of Train 8 from Seattle and Train 28 from ...

ST. PAUL - Trains are back on track at St. Paul's Union Depot, albeit more than a year behind their original schedule. Beginning May 7, Amtrak's Empire Builder will arrive and depart from the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) – Amtrak is expected to resume normal operations through Grand Forks, Devils Lake and Rugby in North Dakota this week. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven has announced that the change will go ...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Amtrak officials say the company is changing the schedules of its Empire Builder passenger train because of congestion from increasing oil freight along the line. The Empire ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. - Heavy freight traffic from North Dakota's oil boom is hampering Amtrak passenger trains between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. Spokesman Marc Magliari says Amtrak is canceling or ...

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