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Empire Builder moved to a more southerly route?
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<p>[quote user="snagletooth"]Why would they have to rename it? The EB ran over CB&Q via Savanna, IL. from Twin Cities to Chicago, not MLWK via Milwaukee, Wi. If anything, it should already be called The Hiawatha Builder! Following your line of logic, that is.[/quote]</p><p>You couldn't even comprehend my logic, but getting back to your reply, it Wouldn't be called the Hiwatha Builder because the Hiwatha ran the Milwaukee Road, The Empire Builder ran the Great Northern, but having Amtrak shif it's train from the "High Line" to the "Low Line" NP ran The North Coast Limited and Amtrak is notorious for keeping some form of Railroad history in its' trains names. [Even though a small piece of the route it would run west is a portion of the original Milwaukee Road, and the final leg from Fargo into Chicago is on the Original Great Northern]</p>
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