Smoke Break in Minot
Fill 'er up. Unleaded, please. This is my chariot, car 0730. All the elderly hoodlums rush to light up on the platform while the train...
Oh. Rain.
Day 3, somewhere between Rugby and Minot, North Dakota. 1:03 late. This is Big Sky country but at this point the big sky is full of...
Crossing the Mississippi
La Crosse, WI as we cross the Mississippi entering Minnesota -- our 8th state by my count. A beautiful day here in the Midwest. ...
Mwaukee and Onward
That's how our conductor says it. Must be from Wisconsin. Here is a (so I'm told) famous clock tower in Milwaukee. This is a very...
Route of the Empire Builder
We're scheduled into St. Paul about 10PM tonight... East Glacier Park, MT about 7:30 tomorrow... Seattle at 10:30AM on Thursday. See ya!
Au Revior Chicago
And we're off. Right on time, 2:15PM CT. I am happily ensconced in room #12 of car 0730 (my new favorite). I will be back in Chicago...
A Lunchtime Break
A nice place for a well-deserved Iced Venti Americano -- along the Chicago River right outside Union Station. Right next door was an...
Chicago
End of the line for the Capitol Limited. A nice trip so far. This is the White Sox stadium from the train. They must be on the road....
Midwest
Fly-over country, they call it. But some of it is quite pretty in the morning light. Most of the morning was traversing Indiana. Lots...
Waterloo, IN
Day 2. Definitely middle America here. :55 minutes late. We made up some time overnight. Here is dawn over Indiana I slept well,...
