Q: I can’t get a refund from Amtrak for its totally inappropriate “handicapped” room on the Empire Builder from Chicago to Glacier National Park. The room was not safe; there was no room for a ...

The Amtrak Empire Builder may not be the most fashionable train in the world, or the fastest, or the most elegant. But it has something that other trains do not have — the wide Montana scenery that ...

WENATCHEE -- Wendy Pippel's first ride on the Empire Builder train across the Cascade Mountains to Seattle might also turn out to be her last. "There may not be many more," Pippel said as she and her ...