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Steve Lookner at Agenda Free TV on YouTube is covering this in a livestream right now, curating from various news sources and twitter feeds and educating himself about the Empire Builder as he goes along, he always does a good job

I really need to write a little day trip guide for Bellingham. There's so much to see and do, mostly free and all easily reached by foot or bus from the train station. Just a quick sketch for now but the Alaska Marine Highway docks referred to, is well worth a visit, actually called the Cruise...

Wonder if they'd ever add a run from Seattle to Bellingham, so many college kids go back and forth.

There are vending machines in the station for water and pop to take with you. This has been a good thread for information about the upcoming move to downtown St. Paul, thanks, that is exciting. I was at the Midway station in January, it is pretty dreary.

I read about this story yesterday at the City-Data.com forum for North Dakota. The young man had so much going for him, he was doing all this work with youth in a small town for a summer theater program and they liked him so well, and he was involved in so many other film projects and a lot of...

Yeah when going through White Rock at a slow pace the cars would be thrown from side to side - it was very unpleasant until they fixed it and made me dislike the Talgos - they've grown on me a little bit more since then.

Make a pound cake, in a loaf pan, that will sit really nicely in a sturdy tote bag, and keep well. You can serve it with ice cream when you get there - would that work?

One special thing about the transportation options here in Bellingham (for those of you not familiar with the area) is that the Alaska Ferry Terminal is just across the railroad tracks from the Amtrak/Greyhound station. Very conveniently situated. I did not know that the ferry is scheduled to...

That will be a nice trip. You get such a great water view along the line. I have probably ridden it more when it was a Superliner set for 3 years than I did when it was Talgos the rest of the time. Seems that way anyway. One time they had a Pacific Parlor Car on there for about ten days and...

Thanks Alan, it's always nice to belong somewhere . . :-)

Thanks! I really want to make a point of taking the train to Seattle or Vancouver while it is still Superliners! Also it will be interesting to see how the bistro cars turn out - they had asked for comments on the proposed design a while back. The way they are now there is kind of a...

I just like how I used the verb "to foam" in my post :-)

Was walking on the trail by the railroad tracks in Bellingham, WA today and saw the Cascades 510 heading north from Seattle to Vancouver, BC. Was so pleasantly surprised and excited by the sight that I didn't note the consist but when I used to ride it before, I think it was a coach, a...

I'm three scenic miles, and there's a very convenient bus that gets you down there in ten minutes for a buck. Also you could walk almost all the way there on a trail through the woods, through a park on the shoreline, and then on a long dock over the water. Bellingham, Washington, served by...

Thanks for sharing this account with us. I have been on a train that struck and killed a bicyclist, and I really felt bad for the engineer and the rest of the crew that had to deal with it. I know it happens more frequently than we like to think, and my pals that work for Amtrak say they "get...

You mentioned wood ties and I wanted to bring something up that I read about a while back, I was reading in an old book about trees, and looked up catalpa trees, do you know those? So interesting, with giant heart shaped leaves, large pretty flowers, and distinctive long bean shaped pods of...

Hey Penny, sorry I came across your trip report so late, it would have been fun to follow along. I enjoyed reading all of it and so glad you had a great trip and that everything went well. Thanks for writing about it!

Sorry to hear about your rotten trip GML! The worst part from what I understand, is that you missed a connection to a train with your sleeping accommodations by 15 minutes? And then they wouldn't let you priority board for your substituted coach seats on the replacement train? I don't like...

I took a Thruway bus to Seattle recently, the trip was just fine. The bus was much better than a Greyhound bus, very new and clean. The driver was super pleasant and professional, he was happy in his job.

Got home from work and saw that email from WDOT/Cascades, what timing for such a busy travel week of Thanksgiving! Came over here to see what you guys were saying about it. North Coast Hiawatha, I see you are a fellow 'hamster, howdy neighbor.