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

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 ...

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

ST. PAUL -- A planned second Amtrak train from St. Paul to Chicago is much closer to reality now that $10 million was set aside for it in the state’s omnibus transportation funding package signed into ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mont. — At least three people were killed Saturday afternoon when an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana, an official with the Liberty County ...

Daily passenger rail service is on track to return to Spokane. Nearly half a year after Amtrak reduced service on the Empire Builder to three days a week due to a precipitous decline in revenue and ...

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 ...

Amtrak’s Empire Builder train 7/27 traveling westbound from Chicago to Seattle/Portland on Sept. 25 derailed near Joplin, Mont., at 3:55 p.m. MT. The passenger train was traveling between 75-78 mph, ...