Conquering the Cascades
South of Seattle we parallel the Puget Sound for a while. The weather continues to be spectacular. Not too much of note between Olympia...
Departure Seattle
This was the view from my dinner al fresco last evening. I can tell you that the salmon and strawberries we get on the east coast are...
Bob and The Holy Grail
That would be the original Starbucks, here at Pike's Market. I had been here about 10 years ago, but could hardly visit Seattle without...
Arrived in Seattle
Train had made up time and actually arrived 5 min early. The restored train station is quite spectacular on the inside. I don't know --...
Last Breakfast on the Empire Builder
The climate on the west side of the Cascades changes again to what we think of as typical Pac Northwest – wet, rainy, with dense stands...
Woke Up and Saw The Sun Rising In the West
Day 4. I certainly can get confused early in the morning. In this case, the train was traversing a horseshoe curve on its way down to...
Montana Lives Up to Its Name
The pioneers must have said "oh shit…" After several hundred miles of rolling plains, the Rockies make an impressive barrier to further...
Rainbow Over the Great Plains
I don't know why anybody gets killed by a tornado out here. The horizon is so vast you can see storms (in our case some showers) coming...
Havre, MT
No, the clouds don't really look like this. But I have a filter on the camera that makes them look like this. Leaving Havre, Montana at...
Fracking Territory
Big shale oil boom in North Dakota (boo!) Means lots of new railroad construction (yay!) They appear to be double tracking the line all...
