The Empire Builder is a train for people who think big.
It can carry you to the greatest of the great outdoors--including some of the largest wilderness tracts in the United States. Not to mention a National Park spanning two major mountain ranges, the Rockies and the Cascades.
It can take you to the tallest building in the world, Chicago's Sears Tower. The largest collection of ice sculptures in the world and the biggest shopping mall in the 50 states, the Mall of America, in Minneapolis-St. Paul. The biggest cities of the Northwest, Seattle and Portland. And it does it all under the famous Big Sky of the northern prairie--a sky of the northern prairie--a sky that really is bigger and grander than any you've ever seen.
What's more, the Empire Builder takes you to your big vacation in comfort that could only be called expansive. With scenery that could only be called monumental.
After over two weeks on the rails, our vacation, sadly, will be at an end. But what a vacation and what memories will have been gathered...memories for a lifetime.
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| Seattle King Street Station | Chicago Union Station |
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| Montana Forest | Isaak Walton Inn | Glacier National Park |
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| Cut Bank Creek | Havre, Montana | Havre Station |
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| St. Paul Station | Tomah, Wisconsin | Sandstone Formation |