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I'm taking the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland, leaving on Friday 7/15 and arriving on Sunday 7/17. It looks like arrival times to Portland were also changed. The arrival schedule that I've been checking has been showing 10:10am in portland but our tickets in the app show an 11:17am...

Thank you, I'll be sure to report back with a rundown of the journey!

Hello everyone, I've been following along on the forums for the past couple months. My family and I (2 adults and 2 7-year-olds) are taking the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland in a few weeks. We do not have a sleeper so I have a few questions about luggage and food. Are carry on bags...

Thanks again. I'd like to get into portland early because we're driving to florence to stay a couple days on the coast. We'll just make the best of the coach accommodations. I took this same route when I was a kid back in the 1989, I don't remember a whole lot but my parents said my siblings...

Zephyr, thank you for your informative response. Both the children will be aged 7 at the time of the trip so I think we would have been ok for a 4 person sleeper but it's a moot point now. I'll hold off on booking for a while in hope that prices come down a little bit. Since the dining car isn't...

I was hoping to get the 4 person family bedroom but it looks like each train only has one of those rooms and someone else beat me to it. The other rooms listed are both 2 person rooms so we would have to get 2 of those rooms and it makes the trip much more expensive as shown in the attached...

I'm planning a trip with my family for next July. We are planning to take the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland. Unfortunately seemingly the only 4 person bedroom on the train has already been booked so I'm trying to decide between coach or business tickets. The Amtrak website lists more...