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Empire Builder returns to daily service May 23, 2022
Illness leads to trash left on Amtrak platform
Amtrak provides update on possible passenger rail train between Green Bay and Milwaukee
Two Years After COVID: Amtrak Lags, VIA Rail Hopes
All Aboard! Amtrak is Burlington bound! Vermont epitomizes planning, patience and incremental improvements.
Empire Builder charges out of Chicago
Amtrak completes $4 million project to make Grand Forks station ADA-compliant
Empire Builder gets new locomotives
Havre town hall meeting with Tester includes concerns about Empire Builder service
What’s NOT in the IIJA
Restoration and Enhancements Grant Program Fact Sheet
Amtrak FY 2019 Performance Report (pre-Covid)
Amtrak FY2020 Performance Report
Minnesota approves funding for second Chicago-St. Paul passenger train on Empire Builder route
Freshly-cooked meals have returned to the Empire Builder
Amtrak at 50: "The Future Rides With Us"
Coronavirus relief bill includes money to restore Amtrak Empire Builder daily service
TESTER INTRODUCES BILL TO RESTORE AMTRAK FURLOUGHED EMPLOYEES, FULL SERVICE TO THE HI-LINE
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
Havre Daily News: The facts on Empire Builder ridership
Opinion: The North Coast Hiawatha Restoration Study: Its many flaws addressed
Fix Amtrak First
Challenges with establishing new service, even with the IIJA
Fixing Amtrak
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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
Unofficial Amtrak equipment roster
Biography of James J. Hill (the Empire Builder)
Amtrak Timetable Archives
Empire Builder Timeline
Empire Builder schedule history 1947-1971
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Empire Builder discussion at Facebook
Rail Passengers Association
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All Aboard Washington
All Aboard Minnesota
Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers
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Interactive map to get current weather conditions at National Weather Service reporting stations along the Empire Builder route.
Empire Builder 100! Help the Empire Builder reach its Centennial in 2029!
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Photo copyright Charles Hamilton. Used with permission.
Photo copyright Charles Hamilton. Used with permission.