By Chuck Quirmbach, WUWM 89.7; February 13, 2019
The Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers, a railroad passengers group with nearly 700 members, is trying to steer the idea of a second daily Amtrak train across Wisconsin into reality. Town hall meetings will be held Wednesday and Thursday evenings on the possibility of a shorter, more reliable, Empire Builder.
Amtrak’s current Empire Builder train runs from Chicago, through Milwaukee, to the Twin Cities, all the way to the West Coast.