That's a good question. I was hoping to take the Empire Builder from Seattle to Minneapolis and back this February, although it is looking kind of unlikely at this point. Would have loved to grab a Rail Sale fare and go more or less at the last minute. I was looking forward to the endless frozen landscape of North Dakota. I moved out here to the NW coast six years ago, I like the mild climate and all the year round green but still I miss winter and wouldn't mind a good solid dose of it for contrast, and to make me glad to get home here too.
Would love to hear people's experiences of the EB in the dead of a real winter like this one. I was thinking how cool it would be to get snowed in in some huge blizzard on the northern plains! Seriously. Hey, I'm from Minnesota, we have weird ideas of what would be fun.