Planes, SkyDancer wrote: The Empire Builder (route 7/8) from Seattle to Chicago is a great trip provided you go first class (sleeper). It’s a forty-five hour trip through great country scenes.
Use it from where I’m at to get to Chicago and it’s always late. Sometimes as much as 8 hours due to freight traffic out of the western states. AMTRACK could set up a local run using an interburban (commuter style) train originating from where they have a contract with a bus company in Winona MN which they use to pick up those passengers on the stops between Winona and Milwaukee when that happens. But I suspect because of union problems AMTRAK can’t.
It’s late also due to winter storms and spring floods but then if you’re using the train then time is unimportant.