The second leg of this rail journey is aboard Amtrak train 28, the Portland section of the Empire Builder, which includes two coaches and a sleeper. More importantly, there will be no dining car until we get to Spokane in the wee hours and meet the section of this train that’s originating in Seattle. The Builder…
I flew into Seattle last night — on Hawaiian Airlines, of course — had breakfast with an old friend this morning, then caught Amtrak train # 513 to Portland. Seattle and Portland are the main cities being served by Amtrak’s Cascades trains, but trains also run north to Vancouver, British Columbia, and as far south as…
I’ll be leaving tomorrow for the annual Fall meeting of NARP, the National Association of Railroad Passengers. This meeting will be in Milwaukee which, happily for me, is on the route of Amtrak’s Empire Builder. So I will leave here tomorrow afternoon on a flight to Seattle aboard Hawaiian Airlines. The next leg is one…
Looking sharp! Amtrak has unveiled a new color scheme for their locomotives, reverting to an up-dated version of the red-white-and-blue striping that was used a number of years back. Handsome, isn’t it! I don’t know about you, but I will never stop feeling a thrill when one of those wonderful machines rumbles into a station…