Taking the Empire Buiilder from Portland to Havre in a couple weeks

[swag]

[Ptah]

1. Is the part of the trip through the divide in daylight?

When you get to Shelby, wave to the south.




P.S. you seem to have aged some.

[swag]

2. I think back from Havre to Portland, we get some divide at daylight.

Will tip the hat to Shelby for you, Ptah.

[Ptah]

3. To the south of Shelby, to Conrad, please.

I love Amtrak.

I hope your homecoming is topnotch, swag.

:thumbsup:

[swag]

4. Well I knew you were a Conrad feller, but am reading sloppily tonight,

Anyway, Shelby ain't so bad either.

Didn't Dempsey fight Carpentier there?

Oh, no, it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dempsey_vs._Tommy_Gibbons">Tommy Gibbons

As long as we're at Wikipedia, here's the Conrad entry which you may have posted here.

[greendog]

5. I've taken it from Whitefish to Chicago and back...

...it was a great trip. Probably not too crowded this time of year.

Have a good time!

[swag]

6. Golly, you live in a nice part of the world.

[KitchenWitch]

7. Gawds, I forget the origin and destination, but I took the Empire Builder as a kid.

We took the train a lot of places when I was a kid. Loved those trips.

[swag]

8. That's cool.

I mostly just took it back and forth from Havre, MT to Glasgow, MT.

[Suich]

9. I am insanely jealous!

I used to take the Shasta Daylight from Portland to Oakland to visit an aunt and uncle when I was a teenager. I'd love to take a train ride for a week so I can see the country without having to DRIVE! Have fun!

:hi:

[swag]

11. Hi, Suich. I love the West Coast train rides too.

Love to take the Talgo runs (I think their the 503 and 504 Coast Starlight runs) between Portland and Seattle. So pleasant. Have heard the ride to Oakland is beautiful. Hope to try it some time.

[grasswire]

10. I went from Salem to Boston and back a few years ago

Pretty cool. Step on the train in Oregon, change trains in Chicago, and chug all the way to the East Coast and back. I went by myself, and did not get a sleeper car but sat up in the coach. It was a fabulous experience. I did it in March, so the climb up and down the Rockies was really, really thrilling.

[swag]

12. Wow, that's an amazing ride you describe.

Amtrak can be a good gig.