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• 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 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* <zc41' breeding cattle, and developing grains that would survive the new see the islands that dot the sound, Here the Empire Builder route (the In order to give salmon access to their (,6'5' 6'— 66' . ocs (9 lands. One step at a time, he expanded his railroad to serve the vast, including Whidbey Island and Bain- Great Northern route from Seattle) is breeding grounds, engineers had to emerging resources of America's Northwest—first the grain of North bridge Island, which are connected to joined by the Spokane. Portland and build fish ladders (terraced pools) (4 4?* ..0;4'rdtr „es 6' se cP Dakota, then the gold and copper of 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 ,&,><cs part of this powerfully beautiful area of America. thefor itsrailroads fishing linked fleet and these lumber, forests Before with Zones. If you're traveling east, set your they were born. As the train passes the ID ,,,,,51.,Lr- ''' ct (..,04' '?-4cp•t>' -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.
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