8:01 I have to agree with you here Mike, I think the Phase VI and VII is possibly the best and most eye catching lash up any railroad can ever create anywhere in the world

Great Amtrak Empire Builder Detour video for 53 years!!!! ALL ABOARD!!!!!!

Wow, if you were planning on leaving Seattle anyway thats really fortunate! You get a sightseer car through Steven’s Pass!

Hi Mike Armstrong this is Isaiah wiley from myrtle Beach south Carolina saying Keep up the great amtrak video making your the best ❤😊 my dad and I took the empire builder from Seattle to Chicago when we went across Canada 🇨🇦 on the Canadian train from Toronto to Vancouver and then we took amtrak cascades train from Vancouver Canada to Seattle Washington where we stayed in a Hilton hotel for the night and got on the empire builder the next day this trip was in 2015. See you on the American rails soon sincerely Isaiah wiley from myrtle Beach south Carolina.

Awesome Alc-42s and Amtrak trains

Great video, I had no idea that this was happening! And it made for a great video idea

When you get the chance, you should visit the Yakima Valley Subdivision. It hasn't been documented very much and I would love to see some trains on that line.

Hopping the next gen Amtrak cars will have some sort of Battery back up system. I have had to be towed twice due to a similar loss of car power situation. It's Extremely debilitating specially in the middle of summer or winter and it usually causes a multi-hour delay as the host railroad has to spin up a crew and find a locomotive to tow the train the rest of the way.

Love it! I am fired up to take the Empire Builder from PDX to CHI with my kiddo next month. Thanks for the video.

That was excellent, thankyou.

Great video Keep up the good work

Nice compilation of the Amtrak Empire Builder trains 👍

Awesome shots and coverage of the Empire Builder and breathtaking scenery as well ! You never disappoint Mike : ) Regards; - Larry

the scenery on the Empire builder is beautiful! hope to ride it some day

Love and love this train Amtrak ❤

Your shots are incredible! You combine the technical details with highly aesthetic scenery. Super fun to watch!

Now *that's* a proper length for a long-distance train! They should all be this long, if not longer.

Fantastic video

Thanks for posting this. I have fond memories of driving inland along the Columbia, before heading south to Bend.,

Hi, beautiful video!

hi mike, great video from Amtrak Empire Builder. Thanks for showing it and best regards from Germany

The video was interesting!) I send greetings from Russia to the city of St. Petersburg❤

Awesome video and enjoyed watching once again. Have a wonderful upcoming weekend.(Steve)

Amazing video!! Cool to see these new ALC-42’s take action, but I will certainly miss the P40’s and P42’s.

Very interesting Mike

Nice video. Amtrak was best. 👍🏻❤️

Just found this great video! Good planning, editing, and narrative. As I live in Central Maine (where we don't have as much straight track in the state as you showed here, nor speed limits and performance as high 🚅😀) it would help me visualize the geography a bit if you could maybe put in a map or line drawing. Minor thought. Really enjoyed the video. Thanks.

Amazing video!

Thanks Mike.

Your final scene is the best scene of all. Seeing one rail company using another rail company. BNSF makes a lot of money from NCTD Coaster & Amtrak for using their locomotives.

Great catch

I never knew the Empire Builder splits over the course of its journey. That explains a lot.

Oh man, if I'd known this was happening, I'd have hopped on and gone to Seattle and back for the day. I'm bummed I missed it!

I’m never seeing Amtrak detouring in my life I do know that 48 and 49 they had to re-round because the floods

I like the ALC-42

Great video

I wonder if Amtrak has studied more train splits, specifically the CA Zephyr in Salt Lake. With a portion heading to LA via Las Vegas. Therefore restoring service to there and Southwest Utah as well. Then again I can see Uncle Pete and thier Amtrak hating dispatchers muking this up as well.

🚉🚉 Nice work Mr. Armstrong, The Amtrak Empire Builder detour was a great success, 👍🏻👍🏻 So, What routes is on these locations? ❓❓

Thanks mike

That’s pretty rare to see the full Amtrak Empire Builder go through the Cascades

Nice.

When I saw the word "DETOUR" in the title I thought the train was using an alternate routing through a different mountain pass (like, through Ellensburg and Yakima instead of the usual routing through Leavenworth and Everett) due to track work, not unlike the Zephyr running through Cheyenne and the Overland Route when the Rio Grande route is closed for work

i like Trains

Why do the Phase 7 & Phase 6 livery pair up so well together?

🌺🌺🇮🇳🌺🌺 Nice Video!

Hey Mike do you plan on visiting the grapevine vintage railroad?

Has the Empire Builder always split in two at Spokane? Also, could you please report on the track issue in San Clemente?

What type of camera do you use

Hi Mike, why your watermark is still 2023? :)

I wonder why ATK didn't just run to Portland on the UP via Kalan Bridge in Kennewick-Hinkle-PDX

200 likes! 👍🏻

can those freight locomotives run at passenger train speeds ?

If one is going to or from Portland on a regular day, what happens to one's baggage if it's in the baggage car is on the part that doesn't go to or from Portland?

These trains are nice it would be better is to add Amtrak dash 8 locomotives

What happened to the Portland-bound passengers during the closure?

The lake shore limited does the same thing

Mike would you know to say why sometimes there are 3 locomotives in the same composition!? another way two locomotives and the thirt in reverse! I don get it! See ya!

Might be time to update the copyright to 2024. 😉

I'm assuming Amtrak didn't want to continue it down south to Portland??

What happened to the P-42s?

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