The long-distance train route from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest passes city skylines, national parks, lakes, small towns, ...

Amtrak's Empire Builder train offers the most scenic and convenient way to reach Glacier National Park.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daily service on the Empire Builder, the only Amtrak line that traverses Montana, will resume May 23, the federally funded passenger rail service announced last week. The rail agency said that the ...

ABOARD THE EMPIRE BUILDER (Reuters) - Its passengers are mostly silver-haired retirees, oil-field workers and a few young families gazing out the windows of Amtrak's least-profitable and third-longest ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Three people died and more were injured in Amtrak’s Empire Builder train derailment in north Montana. It is still not known how the train derailed, but the National Transportation ...

DETROIT -- U.S. passenger railroad Amtrak said it will temporarily cancel all of its long-distance trains starting on Thursday because of a potential freight rail work stoppage that could start the ...