The media is starting to notice the awful rail transportation problems in North Dakota. Since the recent discovery of vast oil deposits there, the BNSF railroad has doubled and redoubled...
During the night, the Empire Builder angles across Minnesota, crosses into North Dakota for a wee-hours stop in Fargo, then swings due west. When I awaken, we’ve just left Devil’s...
The Chicago-to-Seattle segment of the trip did not start out well. Because of flooding somewhere in Wisconsin, we were treated by Amtrak to an 8½-hour bus ride from Chicago to...