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Posted 24 November 2018 - 07:27 PM

It's spring, 1947, the Empire Builder departs Havre at 12:05 PM; this train went streamlined a couple months earlier.


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Posted 25 November 2018 - 10:37 AM

The train races to the next stop.

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Posted 25 November 2018 - 03:02 PM

After a while, the train pulls into Shelby- the first stop.

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Posted 25 November 2018 - 08:33 PM

The train departs Shelby at 2:10 PM, & pulls into the next stop: Cutbank.

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Posted 26 November 2018 - 03:46 PM

After departing Cutbank at 2:45 PM, the train races along the double track to the next stop: Whitefish (the train didn't stop at Browning & Glacier Park on the 1947 timetable).

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Posted 26 November 2018 - 08:14 PM

The train rolls through Browning & Glacier Park.

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Posted 27 November 2018 - 03:45 PM

The train creses the hill at Summit & rolls downhill (which is up to 1.8%).

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Posted 27 November 2018 - 05:24 PM

The train rolls through Essex & Red Eagle.

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Posted 27 November 2018 - 08:06 PM

The train rolls through Belton & rolls over the bridge at Citadel.

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Posted 28 November 2018 - 07:43 AM

After rolling through Conkelly & Columbia Falls, the train pulls into Whitefish. The train would pull into Seattle/Portland (depending on the section) the following day.

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