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Empire Builder moved to a more southerly route?
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[quote user="sklimpel"] <p> So until more equipment shows up and track speeds get raised, it is moot.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p> I agree on the equipment end, there's not enough. The track is ready for Amtrak or can be in a relatively short time. I'm not sure about BNSF through Bismarck (lots of coal trains that tend to do damage to good track is a short period of time), but MRL is pretty much ready now, they just need to post the speed limits and put some superelevation back into the curves.</p><p> [quote user="futuremodal"] </p><p>As was postulated earlier, most of the boardings along the High Line are probably coming from the I-90/I-94 corridor, e.g. the proposed southern line.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Most of the boardings are not coming from I-90/I-94 corridor. I have made that drive on several occasions, both to ride the train and to drop/pick someone up. Not too many other peolpe made the 200+ mile trip from Billings to either Malta (Malta had a ticket agent at one point) or Havre. On my most recent trip to Malta, two people got off and two got on. The two that got on lived in the area and were heading for Vancouver, WA.</p>
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