Easter Sunday's Empire Builder travels down the grade from short line hill in St. Paul right on time on a very nice sunny morning.

Griswalds watch Amtrak 8 cruise down Shortline Hill on the most wonderful day of the Winter; we warmed up well into the 60's!

Amtrak's Empire Builder finally reaches the Twin Cities station in St. Paul after a couple days of fiasco in the form of locomotive problems and weather out west. Apparently, the BNSF unit was on... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder crosses over onto the BNSF St. Paul subdivision, taking the train along the Mississippi River in the suburb Cottage Grove, where it will regain CP trackage at St. Croix to ... (more)

Sunrise Empire Builder: Perfectly on time, the eastbound Empire Builder comes through downtown St. Paul while meeting the rising sun along the Mississippi River.

Amtrak Empire Builder #8 streaks by control point East Skykomish en route to Chicago.

Although this isn't the Heartland Flyer, Amtrak's Empire Builder is sporting #52, "The Heartland Flyer's Big Game Train" locomotive out front as it takes one of the Minnesota Commercial Yard track... (more)

Strong winds creating unpredictable cloud cover made me wonder whether or not I was going to be able to snap a sunny photo of the late Empire Builder. The sun poked out just long enough for me to... (more)

The Empire Builder picks up speed as it receives a clear signal from the East Oakland signal tower.

The Empire Builder is only a few minutes late coming out of MSP - Midway Station. Here it is continuing east cruising along Shepard Road under the bluffs in downtown St. Paul. The Science Museum... (more)

On a great start to a November day, the Empire Builder heads east from the Midway depot over the Snelling Ave. bridge on the Merriam Park Sub. seen here at the Ayd Mill Rd. & Selby Ave. intersecti... (more)

Arriving into St. Paul/Minneapolis (MSP) at 2:50pm, 7 hours and 26 minutes late, the eastbound Empire Builder performs the station stop at Midway Depot.

7 hours and 26 minutes late, the Empire Builder continues over the University Avenue overpass bridge in the Midway/Merriam Park areas of Saint Paul. Down below the central corridor light rail pro... (more)

The eastbound Empire Builder cruises just yards from Newport past the commanding Gerdau Steel Mill. After some city boundary analysis, I got clarity knowing this bridge is within Saint Paul. I w... (more)

The eastbound Empire Builder cruises under the bluffs in downtown St. Paul. The train will enjoy traveling along the Mississippi River until La Crosse, Wisconsin.