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Empire Builder moved to a more southerly route?

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[quote user="Kevin C. Smith"] Michael-I haven't been able to track it down but I remember an article (Trains or Classic Trains) penned by someone who started with the MILW's passenger department towards the end of the...60's, I think? Being the idealistic type, he got right to work and researched the idea of flipping the schedule of the Olympian Hi (?) to run opposite the Empire Builder and North Coast Limited. The idea was to substitute splitting the same time of day market 3 ways with letting the GN & the NP take that time of day to themselves and to take the other half of the day for the MILW. In effect the HI would be a night train in the markets where the others were day trains and vice versa. After putting everything together and presenting it to the powers that be, the response was that there was no real reason to try it, since the passenger service was marking time until it's demise, anyway. But I can't find the article, do you recall hearing anything about the idea?[/quote]From what I remember, the GN Western Star ran on a quasi-"opposite" schedule already (my recollection is that the WS ran on the old EB schedule, thus providing a Western Montana to Seattle day train), so the OH would have still had time of day competition.
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