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Explore America on Amtrak's Empire Builder (American Rail Guides) Kindle Edition

by Thomas Baker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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CHICAGO TO SEATTLE & PORTLAND
‘THE EMPIRE BUILDER’ – AN ICONIC OLD WEST ADVENTURE

Why be bored on a long train journey?

This inexpensive and enlightening route guide by Thomas Baker will transform your experience aboard one of Amtrak's most spectacular train journeys. It's like having an entertaining tour guide beside you, giving informative commentary as you cross the continent on this epic adventure.

This illuminating Amtrak travel guide brings to life hundreds of fascinating points of interest you might otherwise miss. You will experience The West like never before. Baker explainsthe unique natural wonders, intriguing history, pivotal events, and colorful characters that shaped the history of The Old West as you pass important locations.

What’s here?
This carefully researched railway travel guide tells you what’s outside the window. It gives you a front-row seat to The West's rugged, untamed beauty. Baker shares stories of Lewis and Clark, Native Americans, the Wild West, early pioneers, the construction of the Trans-Continental Railway, and famous personalities to enhance your trip and make it even more special.
Baker recounts absorbing stories as you venture through towering mountain ranges, dense forests, alpine valleys, Glacier National Park, Native Americans' traditional homelands, and vast grasslands to the Pacific Ocean.

The essential Amtrak travel companion

This expertly crafted USA travel guidebook is perfect for inquisitive, on-the-go rail travelers. It is your passport to enjoyment on ‘The Empire Builder’ with unique insights, fun facts, and fascinating anecdotes about small towns off the beaten track. It presents a glimpse into the past and present at each stop in a concise, easy-to-read format, where Baker highlights:
  • What is special about the place?
  • What’s happened here?
  • What’s quirky and fun about this place?
  • Is anyone famous from here?

Don’t miss a thing!

Get a copy of this essential travel guidebook today and transform your next trip on “The Empire Builder” into a once-in-a-lifetime rail adventure.
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    American Rail Guides
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    November 24, 2022
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Editorial Reviews

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I always enjoy riding Amtrak's Coast Starlight and Empire Builder but I often wonder what I'm missing as scenery blurs past my window. Thomas Baker's books fill in the details in an entertaining, easy -to-read way. His American Rail Guides will be in my backpack from now on.
Dan Shryock, Travel Writer - Cycle Tourism

Rail travel, even daily commuting into Manhattan, but significantly farther to
afield in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor has always been my favorite mode of
transport. Reading Thomas Baker's guides for these spectacular rail journeys and their hidden attractions has convinced me that it's time to enjoy the pleasures of one or more of these amazing routes. The dilemma is which should I try first?!
 - Peggy Bendel, travel marketing expert, and avid traveler

From the Author

It took me over a year to research and write this book. What made it so engaging was how the Empire Builder weaved its way through the great prairies and the most extensive wilderness in the Lower 48 States, and revealed the fascinating stories of Native Americans, Lewis & Clark, fur trappers, early settlers, and railroad entrepreurs along the way. I hope you enjoy this book as I enjoyed researching, writing, and then testing it aboard the Empire Builder.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BMMBM52J
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 24, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 18.1 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B0BMJ4HJL5
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Thomas Baker

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Thomas Baker has had an amazing fifty-year career in travel and tourism. This allowed him to follow his passion for rail travel worldwide.

He has explored Europe aboard super-efficient services, been thrilled by fast trains in Asia, enjoyed leisurely journeys across the Australian outback, and traveled thousands of miles on Amtrak, discovering spectacular places that cars can’t reach. In addition, he loves traveling the back roads of America, visiting small towns, learning about their colorful history, trying to understand their surprising contrasts and contradictions and just absorb the fantastic scenery at every turn.

Thomas has contributed to dozens of books, magazines, and articles on travel and tourism subjects. In addition, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other media outlets worldwide interviewed him.

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  • Marci Stahl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great for our train trip
    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2024
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    This was fun to read during our train trip Chicago to Glacier
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  • Kathryn Baker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2023
    The Empire Builder route passes through so many historic and beautiful places. I was so fortunate to have this book as my guide to help me understand what I was seeing and where we were along the route. It really brought so much to life for me, and I learnt so much. Without this, I would have passed through the endless miles and know next to nothing about them. I have now purchased the other books in the series to read as an armchair tourist until I get the chance to take those journeys. I should mention this book is easy to read, very concise, but contains stacks of info.
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