Empire Builder station stop in Minot, ND. (Ray Dubicki) Cross-country train rides with and without kids, dining cars with and without meat, and making travel part of the vacation. To ride a train across America is the most sublime tension you will ever encounter. You are lazily rocking detached from cell signal, exactingly scheduled where minutes missed can turn to hours of delay, and still barreling safely through the most beautiful landscapes the continent has to offer. It is a push-pull that too few Americans experience. Amtrak’s Empire Builder train route is a two night, 2,200 mile trek across the…
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