- Route
- Chicago ↔ Seattle
- Distance
- 3,540 km · 2,200 mi
- Audio stories
- 86
- In the app
- Both directions · Works offline
Watch the journey
A short film of the line — the views the guide narrates as they pass your window. English captions in the player.
Route map
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The route in text
- Route
- Chicago ↔ Seattle, USA
- Distance
- 3,540 km · 2,200 mi
- Audio stories
- 86, narrated in both directions of travel, fully offline
- On the map
- Illustrated route map of the Empire Builder with stations, distances, and journey highlights. Station names and distance markers are printed on the map itself.
About this journey
Follow James J. Hill's Great Northern route on Amtrak's Empire Builder, from Chicago across the northern plains to Seattle. The train runs the Hi-Line of Montana, skirts Glacier National Park over Marias Pass, and drops through the Cascades to Puget Sound — the most scenic of the northern transcontinentals.
As on every route, stories are triggered by GPS as you reach each place, play in either direction of travel, and work fully offline once you've downloaded the journey. The app even tells you which side of the train to look.
