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| Last Walk Around Glacier Park Lodge with amazing views |
Leaving Glacier Park on LATE Amtrak Empire Builder
I got an extra day to hang around Glacier Park Lodge waiting for my seven hour late Freight led Amtrak Empire Builder which finally arrived and departed at 4:18 PM Friday, September 20. Leaving this late and being led by a freight engine due to one of the Amtrak engines breaking down on the westbound trip to Seattle which turned in Seattle with the freight engine still leading and departed Seattle 7 hours late Thursday evening. One highlight is that we got to see parts of the country mainly North Dakota and east Minnesota which are normally traveled overnight. Main downside was arriving in Chicago very late at 11:45 pm with all the passengers connecting to other trains missing those connections and having to be re-booked on trains leaving today. For me it simply meant arriving at my hotel in Chicago after midnight.
Before leaving Glacier Park on Friday, I walked around the lodge and over to the East Glacier Village where I discovered a neat Blackfeet Indian Nation memorial park. I've also been out of the hotel here in Chicago today but will do another update tomorrow with some Chicago photos. Below are photos from the Lodge, East Glacier Village and the Empire Builder trip.
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| Blackfeet Indian Memorial Park |
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| Amtrak Station from Across the Tracks |
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I really like the WORDS on this plaque
"If There Is A Time for Peace May It Be Now
If There Is A Time for Consolation, May It Be Today.
If There Is a Time To Remember And Reflect With Love, May It Be Always...
— at Blackfeet Nation Reservation."
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How Glacier Park Lodge Met Us and then Returned Us
to the Train Station |
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These Guys had multiple jobs including shuttling us
and bringing my luggage upstairs for me
as there are no elevators in the 1913 built lodge |
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| Waiting for the Empire Builder |
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| Here comes the train led by a freight engine |
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| My first nighttime stop in Havre, Montana |
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| Freight Engine still leading in St. Paul, MN |
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| We met the Mississippi River in Red Wing, MN |
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| New Friends from Boston |
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| New Friend from Boston |
As I post this update it is raining in Chicago but there are promises of much less rain Monday and Tuesday. I fly home to Nashville Tuesday. I will do one last trip update tomorrow from Chicago. And I will also let you know when I have optimized, organized and updated Reagan's Photo Galleries after I get home in week or so.
