An 11 hour and 45 minute late Empire Builder running west of Cooks Washington. I had a ticket for this train from Spokane, WA to Bingen, WA. Once it got late enough that I would get home around 8:00 pm I came up with alternative travel plans and got home earlier enough to do yard work, etc. and get out to shoot Amtrak in a different scene than usual.
This train, which runs between Chicago and Seattle and Portland, takes its name from James J. Hill, who founded the Great Northern Railroad and extended it from Minnesota to the Pacific Coast.
With two sections of the Empire Builder, the Coast Starlight, Seattle, the Cascade Mountains, Columbia Valley and Puget Sound, Washington state offers rail buffs plenty of variety and beauty.
