The Empire Builder takes the curve at King Coulee among many curves east of Lake City, Minnesota along Lake Pepin.

An ALC-42 highballs the Chicago bound Empire Builder through Wadsworth, IL.

A tardy Empire Builder saunters out of the Glenview, IL station with BNSF 8762 (SD70ACe) providing help, with a friendly crew to boot.

This begins the slowest part of the journey through the Twin Cities. Only a handful of miles to the Union Depot, it will take almost 30 minutes.

Late 8.

Fall colors and shopping cart at milepost 416.

Three hours late allowed a sun lit shot in this valley of trees.

Amtrak's Empire Builder #8 heads eastbound through Homer, MN.

The eastbound Empire Builder departs downtown St. Paul on a beautiful late Spring morning in the Twin Cities.

A gentle curve welcomes the Empire Builder into Red Wing.

A pair of Phase 7 ALC-42 Chargers leads Amtrak 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, past the former Milwaukee Road depot in Hastings, MN.

Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls out of St. Paul, MN after completing its scheduled stop at St. Paul Union Depot downtown and is see here making its way down the Mississippi River as it begins the fi... (more)

Just past the Minnesota Commercial yard, it is 10 minutes away from Union Depot.

The Seattle section of Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder is less than 20 minutes out of King Street Station as it runs through an S-Curve along the shores of Puget Sound at Carkeek Park Beach on a... (more)

As a result of Amtrak 28s Siemens Charger developing issues in the Columbia River Gorge, BNSF 294 has been dropped off a passing Q train at Spokane and delegated to pull the increasingly late Empi... (more)