Icicle Canyon (105 Min./70 Min.) second channel of the Columbia River) Stevenson (55 Min./27 Min.) Lyle (11 Min./24 Min.) * SEATTLE ROUTE* Look closely, and you might see goats to reach Hayden Island. From the island. Much of this area is national forests on A short distance west of Lyle are four WISHRAM Early explorers Lewis and • oie Hooke Builder SEATTLE A mile long tunnel under hilly on the hillsides, and elk, beaver, and the train crosses over this 2,806 foot both sides of the river. Across the river tunnels. Opposite the first tunnel is Clark visited this area, named for an ancient village where Indians gathered downtown leads us from King Street deer in the marshes. The train is now structure to enter Washington. is Cascade Locks, home of the Colum- Memaloose Island, an ancient Indian to trade for salmon. Today. Wishrarn Beyond the beauty theStation. 1962 The Seattle Space World's Needle, Fair, symbol is on the of descending more than 100 feet for VANCOUVER Vancouver was named bia Sightseeing tour boat. This 21/2 burial ground. At Lyle the railway has one of the few remaining railroad right. At Pier 69, the "Princess every mile of forward progress. for Captain George Vancouver, shipmate hour scenic tour covers ancient geologic crosses the Klickitat River. beaneries in the country. These food is a wealth of history, fable and Marguerite" leaves daily in season for Leavenworth (150 Min.120 Min.) of Captain Cook and commander of the history, Amtrak's Pioneer train from Mt. Hood The highest mountain in stops, built and operated by the railroad. cruises to Victoria, B.C. Pier 70. The terrain changes from dramatic to British expedition to chart the North- Portland to Salt Lake City stops at Oregon at 11,235 feet is one of many acquired a mystique all their own. fascinating fact. largest restored wooden building in gentle as the Empire Builder concludes west. Prune orchards and prune dryers Cascade Locks for a connection with peaks with perpetual glaciers and snow Maryhill (10 Min./100 Min.) its steep descent from ski country. The are on both sides of the tracks. To the the tour boat. fields which mark the Cascade Range Neat Maryhill is a 3-story rectangular therestaurants, country, andnow is houses connected 40 shops to and train starts to follow the Wenatchee north is Mt. St. Helens, nearly 10.000 Cooks (70 Mini 12 Min.) across Oregon and Washington. medieval-like structure, the Sam Hill downtown by a trolley which runs River into rich farmlands. feet high, a volcano that was inactive In minutes. you've traveled between museum called Maryhill Castle, filled adjacent to the Empire Builder track. WENATCHEE The "Apple Capital of the until 1980. rainforest and desert. And here, as the with treasures from Europe. On the hill ShiLshole Bay Marina Al this point the World" grows more than 15% of the Cape Horn. The railroad passes railroad skirts the base of 2.500 foot north of the station is a memorial to route crosses the Salmon Bay Inlet. nation's apple crop. through the westernmost rampart of high, cone-shaped Wind Mountain, the dead of World War I, a replica of Shilshole Bay. Lake Union. Portage Bay Columbia Basin About 10 million years the Cascade Range through a 2.369 you can see on the cliffs to the north ok oss England's Stonehenge. and Union Bay form a waterway to ago, lava oozed out of the earth's crust foot long tunnel. one of the last lumber flumes (Or 4e- John Day Dam Constructed between reach Seattle's magnificent Lake here and covered the surrounding Beacon Rock (43 Min./39 Min.) chutes) still in operation in North 4, <0 T> 1959 and 1968 at a cost of Washington. The Chit tenden Locks On ancient mountains. The lava, in some On the left eastbound, named by America. This flume carries rough-cut $487,000,000, the dam is 5,900 feet the right allow access to eastern lake places more than a mile thick, even- explorers Lewis and Clark, this 840 foot lumber from above the rim of the in length, has 16 turbine generator ports. The statue on the left is Leif tually cooled and became the largest 1,700 acre basaltic formation is said to Columbia Gorge and transports it to a units with room for 4 more to be just a few generations ago, the route of the Empire Builder was Ericson, the Norse explorer thought lava basin in the country—today, rich be second in size to Gibralter. The rock finishing mill located along the added later, and will supply enough wilderness, roamed by Indians and buffalo. Later, it was visited by fur to have "discovered" America before and fertile farmlands due to modem has been used as a guide by river river bank. electric power for three cities the size traders and gold miners. And still later, it was developed by merchants. Columbus. irrigation. During the night the train voyagers for decades and by Indians of Portland. EDMONDS Youll find Edmonds' Old stops at EPHRATA. riverfor centuries. several waterfalls On the Oregon are visible. side Theof the timberrnen, farmers, and– maybe most dramatically—by railroaders. Milltown Shopping Arcade in the tum- SPOKANE Spokane calls itself 4 Sniffle Portland Spokane - In this northern plains country the greatest railroader of all of the century Ford garage. Train stops "Monarch of the Inland Empire" and cascadeshighest waterfall. 620 feet Multnomah to the Columbia Falls, River. was James j• Hill, a freewheeling, big-de_aling tycoon who linked St Paul next to the dock for ferries to Kingston lies in the midst of country rich in Bonneville Dam (48 Min./34 Min.) *1inneapolis/S1.Paul*Chicago and Seattle with his Great Northern Railway. Hill acquired the land, on the Olympic Peninsula. productive farmlands, lumber and More than a half mile from end to end, built the tracks and even encouraged homesteading along the route by Puget Sound The train skirts Puget mining. Railroading was responsible this darn is one of the government's hauling whole families and their possessions, providing them with Sound for the next 15 miles. You can for much of the city's early growth. greatest power and navigation projects. 43-. d-c* Montana, then the lumber from the mainland by ferries. Seattle route from Portland. During the between the river level and the top of 0 r -a . A Washington, and then the world trade port of Seattle. In the process, EVERETT Everett has been a popular night the train stops at SANDPOINT the dam. Salmon leap up the "ladder" • 01:4',1' '-,,4• —I A — ,,,•t ce "Empire Builder" Hill came to govern the fate and fortunes of a good port since its beginning and is known crossand LIBBY. Pacific Adjust and Mountain your watches Time as you to return to the upper Columbia where „11b<": 7 '' q-e ,&,>' -1 1 -A mow Today. Amtrak's Empire Builder follows the Milwaukee Road the eastern states. Washington sawmills watch forward an hour. If you're darn, you can look across to the beauty '0' 1"%s< 'c)4. e• between Chicago arid St. Paul. Then it travels the Burlington Northern were already shipping boatloads of traveling west, set your watch back fromof Oregon. 2,000 The to 5,000 mountains feet in here altitude. are ,>,,,,,,, A,,s route through the Marlas Pass to Spokane, where the train splits, with lumber to China, Australia, and South an hour Sheridan's Point/Ft. Rains ...,,, one section going westward to Seattle and the other section south- America. The city's other claim to fame (49 Min./33 Min.) westward along the old Spokane, Portland and Seattle route to is more recent Boeing's 747/767 PORTLAND ROUTE Portland for direct connections to California. assembly plant is located here You PORTLAND The Chinook Indians were An old block house stands on a point Columbia Gorge The magnificent area might even see test planes overhead. the first to use the site of Portland as a Cascadesof land that (Point juts Out Sheridan). near the In upper 1855 you're traveling through is the 55 mile We've written this guide starting at Seattle or Portland and heading Skykornish (75 Min./105 Min.) port. It is said that homesick New settlers and soldiers defended this long Columbia Gorge, formed by the eastward, indicating how many minutes past the previous station (to As the train follows the Skykomish River, England settlers flipped a coin to choose trading area from Indian attacks under incredible strength of the Columbia the west) and then how many minutes from a future station (to the you can see Washington's famous pine between Portland (as in Maine) and the command of Lt. Phillip Sheridan River as it cuts through ancient Balks Dam (28 MM/7 Min.) east) you can expect to see a particular sight and whether you should and fir forests. In this area are the Boston (as in Massachusetts) for the who later became the famous Civil War lava rocks. Lewis and Clark were Danes is the French word for "trough." North McNary (70 Min./30 Min.) look to your right or your left for it. If you're traveling westward, just prospector's Money Creek, Indian Falls, name of their new city. Today. Portland. general. It was near this location that the first white travelers to explore its and this area was so named because This town was named after Charles L. begin at Chicago, read the entries in reverse order including the time chute-shaped Sunset Falls. Table Rock Oregon. rails itself "The City of Roses, the Golden Spike was driven. It was southern tip. Settlers from the east of the narrow and dangerous channel McNary. a U.S. Senator from Oregon references, and –of course—look in the opposite direction from the and Index Mountain. the cleanest, greenest, most beautiful March 11, 1908, marking the com- traveling the Oregon Trail tried to brave The 8,700 foot darn, which the Empire for more than 25 years. one we've indicated (right for left and left for right) to see each sight. Cascade Mountains For the 65 miles city in America." In the heart of the pletion of the Spokane. Portland and the rugged river, some staying along Builder follows for the next few minutes, Note that all Amtrak stations are indicated in capital letters to set them east of Everett the tracks have been Columbia River basin, Portland was the Seattle Railway line between Pasco its banks. The traveling today is much Jeated Horsethief Lake used for fishing PASCO Here in Pasco. Englishman climbing more than 2.800 feet. The best largest city in the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver. easier, and the Gorge and its beauty and water sports. The dam provides the David Thompson claimed the western apart from those cities and regions through which the Empire Builder way to get through this spectacular when it incolporated in 1851. With the Bridge of the Gods (51 Min./31 Min.) are delightfully accessible area with irrigation water, hydroelectric lands for Great Britain with a simple travels but makes no stop. Use this guide in conjunction with an Amtrak mountain range is to go under it which completion of the railroad 30 years This bridge replaced a natural rock B1NGEN-WHITE SALMON The two power, and a reservoir for water sports. claimmessage didn't tied hold, to a and pole. the England's United States timetable in order to determine intermediate station times. All times you can, thanks to the 779 mile Cas- later, it became a supply center for the bridge, which the Indians say was adjacent towns were named by immi- are approximate cade Tunnel, bored under Stevens Pass, Klondike. destroyed by their deity in anger when grants after Bingen, a beautiful town Avery (33 Min./2 Min.) infinally 1846. took The over town's the disputed name is territorysaid to be No matter in which direction you're traveling, this guide will help you 500 feet overhead and 4,061 feet above Columbia River Draw Bridge Leaving his two sons argued over a young The Empire Builder travels on the water enjoy your adventure more fully and track your progress more easily. sea level. The tunnel, longest in the Portland. the train crosses the maiden. The two sons became Mt. Whitealong Salmonthe Rhine River. in Germany, This is the and center the level route through the Columbia River an abbreviated version of "Pacific Now all aboard. For a trip past spectacular scenery. • • and a Willamette River. then a 1,516 foot Hood and Mt Adams. The maiden Gorge, one of several points on the Steamship Company" Ills the farthest ROUT' ii,kkitiARI GUIDE inWestern 1929. Hemisphere, was completed of extensive fruit orchards. Across the route where you can see Mt. Hood to point up the Columbia River that can colorful trip through time! bridge over the Oregon Slough (a became Mt. St. Helens. water is the city of Hood River, Oregon. the south. be reached by seagoing ships. Flathead Tunnel The 7 mile long BROWNING Browning is the head- Bear Paw Mountains (50 Min./18 Min.) WOLF POINT The wolf sculpture on the GRAND FORKS The University of North rivers impressive system of federally WINONA Sugar Loaf Mountain on the WISCONSIN DELLS The red sandstone MILVAUKEE It was beer that made CHICAGO The Chicago, Milwaukee, Flathead Tunnel. 42 miles west of White- quarters of the Blackfeet Indian Reser- In 1877. after a 1,700 mile retreat, Chief right memorializes this town's major Dakota campus is at Grand Forks. funded dams and locks that tame the right was a ceremonial meeting place of canyon is as glorious to play in as h is Milwaukee famous and German St. Paul and Pacific Railroad route fish, is the second longest in the Western vation. On the right is the Blackleet Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians, frontier-era role in wolf trapping and where the Red lake River and Red waterway for modern-day needs. the Sioux. who named this town "first- to look at. Boating and rafting attract immigrants who brought the beer. In between Chicago and St. Paul known Hemisphere. Indian Writing Co. where ball point pens recognizing the hopelessness of his trading. Today Wolf Point is the site for River of the North meet. Farther down the river on the right are born daughter." tourists from all over. addition, they also transplanted simply as the Milwaukee Road— began WHITEFISH The Alpine-style station are made. Also here is the Museum of position, surrendered to the U.S. Army the granddaddy of Montana rodeos— FARGO Named for Wells Fargo Express the Hastings Lock & Darn and the LACROSSE At this point, the river is Wisconsin River (5 Min./10 Min.) German beer gardens, theater and as a plank road for horses and wagons. serves as a reminder that nearby is the the Plains Indians. in the Bear Paw Mountains (rear and to the Wild Horse Stampede. The railroad Company founder (and former resident) Koch Oil Refinery wide, quiet and immensely scenic Soft The river has left miles of striated rock opera. On the right, you can see the Two sources of Americana are right popular Big Mountain ski resort. CUT BANK 25 minutes west of Cut your right). Said Chief Joseph. From dosses the Poplar River 20 minutes William Fargo. North Dakota's largest Hastings (39 Min./21 Min.) tree-covered mountains, to the east, will formations along this part of the route. home of the Brewers at Milwaukee here the Rock-Ola Jukebox factory on Located in the valley of Flathead Bank a monument to early explorer where the sun now stands I will fight later. town is in the heart of the fertile and Train crosses the Mississippi River sharpen to rugged limestone bluffs a PORTAGE Portage was once a regular Country Stadium. On the left is the the right, and the large depot of Yellow National Forest, with its great recrea- Meriwether Lewis memorializes his no more forever." Fort Belknap Indian Culbertson (35 Min./50 Min.) famous Red River Valley. Bonanzaville. entering I lastings; 5 minutes later few miles south. The Empire Builder stopover for traders and settlers who home of another favorite, the Miller Cabs (almost all are still Checkers) on tional activities, the town is bordered search for a pass through the Rockies. Reservation and Little Rocky Mountains 5 minutes west of Culbertson cross USA, a pioneer village reconstructed cross the Vermillion River. enters Wisconsin as it crosses the great Brewery. The glass domes on the the left. This area is often most noted for the are to your right Big Muddy Creek, eastern border of the from original buildings, is at West Fargo. Cannon River (56 Min./6 Min.) river for the last time. French trappers betweenhad to -portage" the Fox (carry) and Wisconsin their gear Rivers Mitchell Park Horticultural Conserva- CHICAGO The tapering Hancock by Whitefish Lake coldest mid-winter temperatures in the Wagner (70 Min./10 Min.) Fort Peck Indian Reservation. Chief East of Fargo. a major livestock center, On the left is the Prairie Island nudear used to watch Indians playing a game tory duplicate climate and plant life Building comes into view, and the tallest BELTON Belton is the western entrance country. Just west of Cut Bank, youll In 1901, Kid Curry, Butch Cassidy and Sitting Bull lived here after surrendering. the Empire Builder crosses the on the fields here, and dubbed the on their trips between the Mississippi found throughout the world Cross building in the world— the Sears Tower to Glades Park. Snowfall here averages the Sundance Kid jumped the Great Fort Union (60 Min./15 Min.) Red River. power plant game "la crosse- The town is located River and Lake Michigan. Menomonee River after stopping at the dominates the skyline to the south. 100-200 inches a year. get your first or last view of the Rockies. Northern's Oriental Limited. They blew Adjust your watches as you cross RED WING Al the Saint James Hotel at the confluence of the Black LaCrosse Wyocena (5 Min./20 MM.) station. The Allen Bradley Clock on the You can see Marina City.s twin cylin- Essex (45 Min./55 Min.) borderSweetgrass 25 miles I fills andto the the north Canadian can be up the express car and got away Mountain and Central Time Zones. If During the night the train stops at on the right, each room is named for a Santa's Super Rocket in the salvage right is a Milwaukee landmark. Polish drical towers and the Merchandise Mart This small village features the quaint with $68,000. you're traveling east, set your watch DETROIT LAKES. STAPLES and riverboat. The Minnesota State Train- Riverand Mississippi for 25 miles Rivers. Follow LaCrosse yard on the left still flies in childreds immigrants built Milwaukee's St. rise above the river on the left. Izaak Walton Inn named for the great seen from the train on the left. forward an hour. If you're traveling west. St CLOUD. ing School. on the right, was modeled imaginations. Josaphat's Basilica, the fast Polish English angler and author. Cross the MALTA Was once the inspiration for set your watch back an hour. The train after a German castle The town of Red Tunnel City (35 Min./4 Min.) COLUMBUS Mounted in the steeple of basilica in North America, with its Flathead River atop a high trestle. famous western artist Charles Russell. crosses Montana for 675 miles. There Wing was named after a Dakota Chief The sudden steep hills here are punctu- the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church distinctive dome modeled after St. *CHICAGO ROUTE Today. ranching remains a thriving busi- are four times as many cattle here who had adopted the custom of wear- ated by a single-track trip through a on the right is a bell cast from pieces Peter's in Rome ness here. Watch for the Empire Builder as people and twice as many sheep. ing a swan's wing dyed scarlet Red 1,350 foot tunnel. There are only three of French cannon acquired in the Franksville (22 Min./43 Min.) crossheaded the in Milk the oppositeRiver. direction, and Follow the Missouri Breaks along the Wing Shoes are manufactured here places on the eastern portion of the Franco-Prussian War. The bell was a Old World traditions live oil at the Missouri River. and sold throughout the United States. route that are not two tracks. Tomah gift from the Emperor of Getmany. Frank Pure Food Company, on the 4\ Fort Buford (65 Min./10 Min,) Lake is on the right. Cross the Crawfish River. right, the company that gave the town Here Chief Sitting Bull surrendered after Watertown (15 Min./50 Min.) its name. the Battle of Little Big Horn. You can Steeple of St. Bernard's Church and Gurnee (43 Min./20 Min.) still see the fortss stone powder maga- Marantha College are both on the left. Gurnee is the home of Maniott's Great ss.V zine, cemetery and officers' quarters. Cross the Rock River 3 times, America Amusement Park, where whenever you feel like it you can ,Oseee- 45' enjoy the sensation of falling more than ' > N. WILLISTON At the hub of the Williston Marias Pass (75 Min./18 Min.) ••, Oil Basin. Williston. on Lake Saltaka- ST. PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS Midway The train route through Glacier Park wea's west end, is in North Dakota's rich Station. sewing the Twin Cities, is a serv- follows the "Mystery Pass- through the SHELBY Thousands of spectators hired icing point for fuel and water for the Rockies sought by Lewis and Clark. and trains to get to Shelby's gala Worlds oil country. Oil was discovered in this Empire Builder, a good place to stretch Heavyweight Championship fight area in the 1950s. and there are many legs. make a phone call, or buy a paper. 4-s\ finally— 40 weather. established Stevens by John found Stevens the inroute between Jack Dempsey and Tom wells along the Empire Builder's route. This spot is not only midway between • on a mission for the Great Northern Gibbons on July 4. 1923. Just days Saco Hot Springs (25 Itilin.135 Min.) STANLEY This small town is known for the two cities, but also midway between Fsontenac (16 Min./54 Min.) bc> cP 49 Railway in 1889. and is remembered before the fight. Dempsey's manager. Just outside town, Nelson Reservoir its grain and livestock production, and the Equator and the North Pole. This pretty town traces its roots back to ,c* -Nat 44 e e"' in a statue on the left. As you Cross the Doc Kearns cancelled the match. The comes into view on the left and Bowdoin its Mountrail County Courthouse. ST. PAUL Originally St. Paul was known an original French fort built here in spectators cancelled their plans. But at National Wildlife Refuge appears on the MINOT West of Minot the train crosses by the nickname of its first settler, trader 1723. Today it has its own ski area, on s t 31