Per a NewsWire story, Amtrak will resume the Empire Builder's old schedule and Fargo-Minot routing Jan. 12.
This is good news only if these can be maintained into a new construction season, when more capacity expansion by BNSF in North Dakota and Montana is contemplated. Warm-month daylight running thru the Montana mountains (Glacier) was a major casualty of 2014.
I, for one, will book a trip to Whitefish only when I'm assured the schedule at least allows the possibility of enjoying that dramatic mountain passage.
I wonder how the Izaak Walton Inn is doing. It's one of our favourite spots, but we have given up on the EB and have flown to Kalispel lately.
Following the good Newswire story about No. 8's early arrival into Whitefish yesterday on the restored old schedule, I checked status of the first No. 7, due at 8:56 p.m. It was to be almost 6 hours late -- ouch!
It was classy of Amtrak to have their PR guy meet the first No. 8 and talk to people. Whitefish is a good friend to Amtrak and was especially hurt last year by the temporary nighttime arrivals and departures and erratic running.
dakotafred Following the good Newswire story about No. 8's early arrival into Whitefish yesterday on the restored old schedule, I checked status of the first No. 7, due at 8:56 p.m. It was to be almost 6 hours late -- ouch!
If that was the train that departed Chicago on the 12th, it had an engine problem before it even reached Glenview, and so it was down roughly 5 hours down everywhere after that.
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