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  • News
    • Next stop: Uncertainty
    • Agents back at Amtrak stations, Tuss to speak at hearing secured by Tester
    • Feds give Wisconsin-Minnesota rail project $31M grant
    • Hi-Line needs to voice support for Amtrak service
    • Amtrak plan for long distance services
    • Congress, RPA question Amtrak cutting schedule
    • Empire Builder to be reduced to tri-weekly October 1, 2020
    • Amtrak to reinstate ticket agents at Havre and Shelby
    • Federal grant awarded for second Amtrak train between the Twin Cities and Chicago.
    • Tracking ridership through the pandemic: February 2020
    • Tracking ridership through the pandemic: March 2020
    • Havre Daily News: Empire Builder tops in long distance ridership
    • Empire Builder tops long-distance ridership again in FY2019
    • Amtrak Leadership Wounds The Empire Builder Yet Again
    • Tester defends long-distance Amtrak service for rural Montana
    • The Empire Builder: Still rolling at 90
    • Senators Push Transportation Department, Amtrak for Answers on Future of Empire Builder
    • Optimism for second passenger train on Amtrak line grows after Portage meeting
    • 91 House members pen letter to Amtrak CEO
    • Interview with BNSF's Matt Rose in Railway Age
    • Amtrak Chairman responds to RPA letter
    • As Amtrak Proposes Changes to Long-Distance Trains, Passenger Rail Advocates Sound the Alarm
    • Amtrak’s “faulty route accounting”: RPA
    • Passenger rail advocates step up efforts to promote long-distance Amtrak trains
  • Opinions
    • 2005 article on Amtrak refurbishing Empire Builder equipment to increase ridership
    • Leavenworth, Washington: The Empire Builder's albatross
    • Amtrak has reached a crossroads. Congress can help.
    • Havre Daily News: The facts on Empire Builder ridership
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      • Great Northern Railway Historical Society
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      • James J. Hill documentary in the making
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      • Biography of James J. Hill (the Empire Builder)
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Historical Reference sites

  • Great Northern Railway Historical Society
  • Great Northern Railway (by Lindsay Korst)
  • Great Northern Railway - Empire Builder
  • Analysis of Twin Cities-Pacific Northwest Rail Passenger service World War II to creation of Amtrak
  • James J. Hill documentary in the making
  • Museum of Railway Timetables
    All the Amtrak timetables ever issued!
  • Unofficial Amtrak equipment roster
  • Biography of James J. Hill (the Empire Builder)
    Biography of James J. Hill, the original Empire Builder

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