Amtrak Empire Builder 7 passes through Mayfair towing the new borealis train

Wow, that was unexpected with the Borealis test train

[@whatthewardid]

How neat!! Excited to ride the Borealis route soon, thanks for capturing!

[@damonboundsthetrainloverof3071]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@dontlookback3549]

How neat? what are you in junior hi?

[@whatthewardid]

@@dontlookback3549 It costs nothing to be kind - sorry your parents failed to teach you that. :(

[@larry4111]

Very cool! I rode the Empire Builder CHI-SEA last Thursday.

[@damonboundsthetrainloverof3071]

That’s awesome

[@gratefultube]

Many thanks for this beautiful video.

[@michaelglass4701]

Looove you're Amtrak video, keep making more 🚆🚆🙂👍

[@damonboundsthetrainloverof3071]

More to come!

[@Thomas1980]

Great nice Video! I like it!

[@keenlybee7669]

What lovely equipment! I hope I get a chance to ride along someday!❤ I take the Crescent line up to D.C. regularly, and our #20 train is a well seasoned lady! Busy little coach convoy, but boy do those cars need a good scrub. Can’t enjoy the view when there’s a film splattered across the window. Sometimes I get the urge to commit reverse-vandalism and give them a scrub myself!

[@transittown7891]

Wow neat train. That's just like our Via Rail Canada J-train. New sub from Canada here for you

[@damonboundsthetrainloverof3071]

Thank you very much!

[@RoadTripTelevisionNJ]

Nice horn 📯 salute 🙌. 😃

[@JohnPatterson-kz8jr]

"I Hear the Train a Comin' It's Rollin'Around the Bend."😅😊

[@fullscale4me]

Wow, a lot has changed in that station! Last time I was there was 1976.

[@P30CH]

Awesome surprise!!! 👍🏼

[@damonboundsthetrainloverof3071]

Yes it was!

[@MARKS5USA]

Well, one had to be deadheaded to get the service running in both directions.

[@perha45]

The video would gain a lot by cutting out the first minute, or more. What a waste!!

[@kevinwynott7755]

You know what's sad...... They had those two beautiful unused Talgo trains that would have been PERFECT for this service.... .and they sold them off to Nigeria in favor of Siemens Venture cars that are apparently shoddy as F**k!!! I wonder how many kickbacks wete involved?!?

[@Greatdome99]

The Talgos do not comply with latest FRA crush standards as evidenced in the Nisqually WA wreck many years ago.

[@robertbartels9556]

Those Talgo trains were the ugliest things to ever ride the rail.

[@kevinwynott7755]

@@robertbartels9556 In all fairness,the normal TALGO Cab car is more normal looking Amtrak SPECIFIED that type of cab so that two crewmen can be there....

[@kevinwynott7755]

@@Greatdome99 Except the accident had NOTHING to do with FRA crash standards,and EVERYTHING to do with an improperly trained crew going into an "S" curve at twice the allowed speed and derailing........given the circumstances, the train held up better than expected.....

[@jgt2598]

​@@kevinwynott7755 The standards aren't about crash likelihood, they're about crash survivability and resistance to damage. Imagine if somebody pointed out that a car was pulled from the market for not having sufficient seat belt strength and you responded "well that crash wasn't caused by the seatbelts". That does not make sense.

[@douglasskaalrud6865]

Beautiful Talgo Train is an oxymoron.

[@bernardmueller5676]

Where is the train being split? At which station stop?

[@masonerger5264]

St. Paul, it's where they start the Borealis for the STP-CHI service.

[@shauntrailskinner9645]

​@@masonerger5264 I think he meant about The Empire Builder splitting in Spokane WA, where one half of the train goes to Portland, while the other half goes to Seattle. Tony, an old school guy