P42 #7 leads train #8,the Empire Builder, on Minnesota Commercial trackage.
Train #8, the EB Empire Builder, works toward the summit of Marias Pass.
The eastbound Empire Builder slows for its station stop at the Isaak Walton as snow continues to fall.
Amtrak #130 is seen leading the Empire Builder #8 east climbing up Marias Pass - 15/09/2013
Another late # 8 rolls thru Big Lake.
Lots of snow in the Montana Rockies this year, so much so that an avalanche closed this route near Java yesterday. Earlier in February the Empire Builder made for a fine, albeit late, sight curvin... (more)
The lights of Stevens Pass Ski Resort illuminate the sky as Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder #8 continues it's journey east and is about to enter the 7.8 mile long Cascade Tunnel. Off in the dist... (more)
Normally it would be tough to get the eastbound Builder in light here during the short days of winter but the perpetually late No. 8 allows for a nice shot as it enters Bad Rock Canyon east of Col... (more)
Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls down Short Line Hill east of Carroll Avenue.
A late No. 8 will become even later as it eases to a stop at East Browning where it would wait nearly an hour for two westbound trains. BNSF had eight trains dead and tied down between Nyack and P... (more)
View from the Hamline Avenue bridge has Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder running over 3 hours late.
From the trackside headquarters of the 4th Annual Fall colors campout, we've been monitoring the events leading up to this scene for a couple of hours. After a west bound freight passed our locati... (more)
Amtrak's #8 Empire Builder has the Frisco Cimarron River Pullman on the rear of the train today.
Amtrak's eastbound 'Empire Builder' crosses the former Great Northern trestle at Goatlick, between Essex and the top of Marias Pass, Montana.
A 4 hour late Empire Builder cruises through the BNSF Northtown yard.