The ALC-42 entered revenue service on Feb. 8, hauling the Empire Builder westbound from Chicago to Seattle from Union Station with locomotives 301 and 302 on the point. These units, in attractive ...

Five cars of the Empire Builder train, which runs from Seattle to Chicago, derailed at 4 p.m. near Joplin, a town of about 200, Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said in a statement.

About 400 Amtrak passengers on two Empire Builder trains had been stranded since Tuesday in Wisconsin, stuck on the tracks due to flooding.

Amtrak is using the Empire Builder route that rolls through Montana to debut new locomotives that it says are cleaner, faster and more fuel-efficient than their predecessors.

Amtrak’s Empire Builder train 7/27 traveling westbound from Chicago to Seattle/Portland on Sept. 25 derailed near Joplin, Mont., at 3:55 p.m. MT. The passenger train was traveling between 75-78 mph, ...

Word spread fast among train fans that a refurbished Empire Builder would hit the rails. When it debuted in August, Amtrak said the passenger liner’s run from Chicago to Portland and Seattle … ...

The only Amtrak route that runs through Havre is the Empire Builder. Known as one of the most beautiful train routes in the ...

WHITEFISH – About an hour before dawn on a Friday morning, Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder crept into the station, already an hour and one minute late into its 2,206-mile journey from ...

Amtrak is restoring daily Empire Builder service for the full route between Chicago and Seattle effective next week — following repairs made by the BNSF Railway Co. to tracks closed due to ...

Flooding in the Midwest has again disrupted service on Amtrak's Empire Builder traveling between Seattle and Chicago.

About an hour before dawn on a Friday morning, Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder crept into the station, already an hour and one minute late into its 2,206-mile journey from Seattle to Chicago.