Nope. There were at least four other type of cars as well. The first car behind the locomotives was the baggage car. Then about mid way through there was the dining car. After the dining car was a coach car. Following that was the observation car. Then typically at the very end is another coach car. The train splits into two separate trains in Spokane Washington.

@@properfunny thank you.

It looks like Caledonia, Wisconsin.

I can't speak about the accuracy of your statement, but, I am a retired locomotive engineer in Seattle. The morning Westbound arrival of the Builder becomes the Eastbound departure later that afternoon, after turning and servicing. I am assuming that what I am seeing on the video is very close in time for when they both passed this crossing.

Actually both trains had Observation cars.

Decades of government policy and politics.

You can thank GOP obstructionism for that. Also, the biggest opponent to passenger rail are the train lines themselves. To them, passenger trains get in the way of their freight trains.

Gasoline is cheap in the U S compared to other countries so there are lots of cars. Back in the day up to the end of WWII, everybody took the train. Train travel dropped off after the war and government subsidies ended in the late sixties. I remember the City of New Orleans and the Southern Crescent. We had a congressman from our district that caught the Southern Crescent in Poplarville, Mississippi to Washington D C. Passenger rail service in other countries are government subsidized plus many countries are small and densely populated.

Because it's the largest railway network in the world unlike other big countries with very small railway networks in comparison 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@jimmy_wang_ I don't know whether you're right or wrong but it makes sense I had never thought of it. Thanks food for thought

The pole line, has a Railroader I hated those taken out , I've seen the young ones I work with trying to find a defect at a certain mileage and they start crying and whining because their GPS is won't pick it up 5280 ft to a mile 40 poles to a mile 132 ft between poles four poles is a 10th of a mile and 10 poles are a quarter of a mile,, I told him how to figure it out without their damn GPS and they just looked at me with the Blank Stare LOL the pole line was my GPS😊

Could be delivering the 2nd locomotive

The Empire Builder is a long distance train and they all use multiple locomotives in case one has issues.