The Amtrak Empire Builder train traverses dramatic landscapes across Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, ...

Reddit travelers highlight the Midwest's most scenic train journeys, filled with national park backdrops, historic routes, ...

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 ...

Ever since the start of a second daily Amtrak train from Union Depot, St. Paul, to Union Station, Chicago, with the Borealis, ...

The scenery was spectacular. Recently we flew to Seattle and took the Empire Builder train a few days later (Eric wanted to check out airplanes at the Museum of Flight) for a two-day trip to Chicago.

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 ...

OK, would-be rail fans, we got you Amtrak tickets in Part 1 and briefed you on a few of my favorite trains. Now come a few tips on getting on board, dining cars, sleeping cars, enjoying the scenery ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amtrak is preemptively canceling the Empire Builder service that runs through Montana starting Tuesday because of concerns over a possible strike by freight rail workers. While those negotiations ...