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This left the Empire Builder as the lone train through Montana and North Dakota and severed some of these states' most populous cities from the rail network, including Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Billings, and Bismarck. Rail advocates have called for the return of the North Coast Hiawatha ever since its discontinuation.
The Empire Builder is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and either Seattle or Portland via two sections west of Spokane.Introduced in 1929, it was the flagship passenger train of the Great Northern Railway and was retained by Amtrak when it took over intercity rail service in 1971.
Great Northern Railway route map (1920) Archived September 11, 2006, at the Wayback Machine; Dutiful Son: Louis W. Hill Sr. Book, Book about Louis W. Hill Sr., son and successor of empire builder James J. Hill at Ramsey County Historical Society. "The Egotistigraphy", by John Sanford Barnes.
Extensions in the 1910s and 1920s resulted in 649 miles (1,044 km) of electrified main line, in Montana/Idaho and over the Cascades in Washington. The 440 miles (710 km) of electrified line between Harlowton, Montana, and Avery, Idaho, was the longest continuous electrified rail line in the world. [citation needed] Olympian observation car
The Empire Builder crosses the Two Medicine Trestle at East Glacier Park, Montana on the Hi Line Subdivision in 2011.. The Northern Transcon, a route operated by the BNSF Railway, traverses the most northerly route of any railroad in the western United States.
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The tunnel section only was electrified; 4.0 route miles (6.4 km) or 6.0 track miles (9.7 km) and 1.7 percent grade through the tunnel chamber. The motive power for the section consisted of four GN boxcab locomotives supplied by the American Locomotive Company ; they used electrical equipment from General Electric and were of 1,500 horsepower ...
Empire Builder, the Amtrak passenger route that services northern Montana, is set to return to daily service beginning May 23.